SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Durham County

Heart Attack and Stroke

Do you think sudden chest pain or discomfort are symptoms of a stroke?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Yes No Don't know/Not sure
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 15,237 5,755 38.0 37.0-39.1 5,667 37.7 36.6-38.8 3,815 24.3 23.4-25.2
-Durham County 427 148 31.2 26.0-36.8 188 44.3 38.2-50.5 91 24.5 19.2-30.8
GENDER
Male 141 45 26.3 18.8-35.5 65 47.1 37.0-57.5 31 26.6 17.7-38.0
Female 286 103 35.5 29.0-42.5 123 41.8 34.9-49.1 60 22.7 17.2-29.3
RACE
White 241 67 24.9 19.3-31.4 121 54.5 47.1-61.8 53 20.6 15.2-27.1
Other 184 81 37.1 28.7-46.3 66 34.9 26.2-44.8 37 28.0 19.4-38.5
AGE
18-44 213 69 28.2 21.6-35.9 104 47.3 38.8-55.9 40 24.5 17.3-33.6
45+ 213 78 36.1 28.8-44.1 84 39.3 31.8-47.4 51 24.6 18.1-32.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 131 46 28.8 19.9-39.7 44 35.9 25.1-48.5 41 35.3 24.5-47.9
Some College + 296 102 32.7 26.9-39.1 144 49.6 43.0-56.2 50 17.7 13.0-23.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 209 80 32.1 24.6-40.7 79 36.3 28.0-45.4 50 31.6 23.1-41.7
$50,000+ 162 47 27.8 21.0-35.9 91 59.3 50.8-67.4 24 12.8 8.5-19.0

Back to Heart Attack and Stroke.

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16AUG06.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook