SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Mecklenburg County

Heart Attack and Stroke

Do you think severe headache with no known cause is a symptom 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 12,498 8,165 62.8 61.3-64.4 1,623 15.1 14.0-16.3 2,710 22.0 20.7-23.5
-Mecklenburg County 589 357 54.5 48.9-59.9 92 20.3 16.0-25.5 140 25.2 20.8-30.2
GENDER
Male 216 106 41.3 33.8-49.3 46 29.0 21.5-37.9 64 29.7 22.8-37.6
Female 373 251 66.1 59.1-72.6 46 12.6 8.9-17.6 76 21.3 15.9-27.8
RACE
White 411 253 56.2 50.0-62.3 58 18.4 13.7-24.3 100 25.3 20.4-31.0
Other 168 98 50.7 40.4-61.1 32 22.8 15.0-33.1 38 26.4 18.3-36.5
AGE
18-44 182 93 47.1 38.0-56.4 46 28.9 21.3-38.0 43 24.0 17.2-32.4
45+ 401 261 62.9 57.1-68.4 45 11.2 8.2-15.2 95 25.9 20.9-31.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 141 75 47.1 35.5-59.0 29 29.4 18.9-42.7 37 23.5 15.4-34.2
Some College + 446 280 57.0 50.8-62.9 63 17.0 13.0-22.0 103 26.0 20.9-31.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 217 129 54.1 44.0-63.9 36 18.8 12.4-27.6 52 27.0 19.1-36.8
$50,000+ 274 166 54.3 47.1-61.3 40 19.5 13.7-27.0 68 26.2 20.5-33.0

Back to Heart Attack and Stroke.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 17JUN10.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook