2011 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Heart Attack and Stroke-MALES

If you thought someone was having a heart attack or a stroke, what is the first thing you would do?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Call 911 Other**
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 9,717 8,769 90.0 88.9-91.1 948 10.0 8.9-11.1
-MALES 3,485 3,108 89.2 87.3-90.9 377 10.8 9.1-12.7
RACE
White 2,816 2,527 89.5 87.4-91.3 289 10.5 8.7-12.6
African American 423 373 92.5 89.2-94.9 50 7.5 5.1-10.8
Other Minorities 224 191 82.1 71.6-89.4 33 17.9 10.6-28.4
AGE
18-34 311 275 89.0 84.2-92.5 36 11.0 7.5-15.8
35-44 450 416 90.0 84.4-93.7 34 10.0 6.3-15.6
45-54 645 573 89.3 85.6-92.2 72 10.7 7.8-14.4
55-64 817 738 91.6 88.9-93.7 79 8.4 6.3-11.1
65-74 736 658 88.9 85.1-91.9 78 11.1 8.1-14.9
75+ 496 420 81.6 74.8-86.9 76 18.4 13.1-25.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 402 337 82.6 75.8-87.8 65 17.4 12.2-24.2
H.S. or G.E.D. 964 858 89.6 85.9-92.4 106 10.4 7.6-14.1
Some Post-H.S. 819 740 91.9 88.3-94.5 79 8.1 5.5-11.7
College Graduate 1,285 1,161 89.8 86.7-92.1 124 10.2 7.9-13.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 300 257 83.8 75.3-89.7 43 16.2 10.3-24.7
$15,000- 24,999 524 464 85.2 78.7-89.9 60 14.8 10.1-21.3
$25,000- 34,999 359 313 88.5 82.6-92.5 46 11.5 7.5-17.4
$35,000- 49,999 487 420 89.1 83.7-92.9 67 10.9 7.1-16.3
$50,000- 74,999 491 458 95.8 93.1-97.5 33 4.2 2.5- 6.9
$75,000+ 896 816 91.8 88.8-94.1 80 8.2 5.9-11.2
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,049 934 90.4 87.3-92.8 115 9.6 7.2-12.7
No 2,422 2,162 88.9 86.5-90.8 260 11.1 9.2-13.5
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,268 1,125 88.5 85.0-91.3 143 11.5 8.7-15.0
Non-Veteran 2,214 1,980 89.4 87.1-91.3 234 10.6 8.7-12.9

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**The category, Other, includes taking them to the hospital, calling a doctor or family member, or doing something else.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2011 are NOT comparable to previous years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2011 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^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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