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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Wake County

Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional ever told you that you had a heart attack,
also called a myocardial infarction?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 13,219 795 4.4 3.9- 5.0 12,424 95.6 95.0-96.1
-Wake County 603 24 2.3 1.4- 3.7 579 97.7 96.3-98.6
GENDER
Male 232 9 2.2 1.0- 4.8 223 97.8 95.2-99.0
Female 371 15 2.4 1.4- 4.2 356 97.6 95.8-98.6
RACE
White 461 22 3.1 1.9- 5.1 439 96.9 94.9-98.1
Other 137 2 0.6 0.1- 2.7 135 99.4 97.3-99.9
AGE
18-44 221 1 0.6 0.1- 4.1 220 99.4 95.9-99.9
45+ 374 23 4.8 3.1- 7.4 351 95.2 92.6-96.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 129 13 4.1 2.2- 7.7 116 95.9 92.3-97.8
Some College + 474 11 1.7 0.8- 3.4 463 98.3 96.6-99.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 176 14 3.9 2.1- 7.0 162 96.1 93.0-97.9
$50,000+ 341 6 1.6 0.7- 4.0 335 98.4 96.0-99.3

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^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.

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