2012 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Health Conditions--By Risks, Conditions, and Quality of Life Measures

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) 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%)
TOTAL 11,857 745 4.6 4.2- 5.0 11,112 95.4 95.0-95.8
GENDER
Male 4,620 398 5.8 5.1- 6.5 4,222 94.2 93.5-94.9
Female 7,237 347 3.5 3.0- 4.0 6,890 96.5 96.0-97.0
Have Health Insurance
Yes 9,900 671 5.0 4.5- 5.5 9,229 95.0 94.5-95.5
No 1,919 72 3.0 2.3- 4.0 1,847 97.0 96.0-97.7
Body Mass Index
Underweight 187 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 3,532 203 3.7 3.1- 4.4 3,329 96.3 95.6-96.9
Overweight 3,998 259 4.6 3.9- 5.3 3,739 95.4 94.7-96.1
Obese 3,359 244 5.9 5.1- 6.9 3,115 94.1 93.1-94.9
Current Smoker
No 9,541 590 4.5 4.0- 4.9 8,951 95.5 95.1-96.0
Yes 2,146 140 4.9 3.9- 6.0 2,006 95.1 94.0-96.1
Binge Drinker
No 10,228 689 5.1 4.6- 5.6 9,539 94.9 94.4-95.4
Yes 1,087 24 1.5 0.9- 2.5 1,063 98.5 97.5-99.1
Heavy Drinker
No 10,787 698 4.7 4.3- 5.2 10,089 95.3 94.8-95.7
Yes 511 *** *** *** *** *** ***
COPD
Yes 1,022 178 15.3 12.7-18.2 844 84.7 81.8-87.3
No 10,773 559 3.8 3.4- 4.2 10,214 96.2 95.8-96.6
Current Asthma
Yes 931 102 8.9 6.8-11.4 829 91.1 88.6-93.2
No 10,853 640 4.2 3.9- 4.7 10,213 95.8 95.3-96.1
Diabetes
Yes 1,558 239 14.7 12.6-17.1 1,319 85.3 82.9-87.4
No 10,280 503 3.4 3.0- 3.8 9,777 96.6 96.2-97.0
Disability
Yes 3,171 421 11.5 10.2-12.9 2,750 88.5 87.1-89.8
No 8,549 315 2.7 2.3- 3.1 8,234 97.3 96.9-97.7
Housing Stress***
Yes 1,490 121 6.0 4.8- 7.4 1,369 94.0 92.6-95.2
No 10,367 624 4.4 4.0- 4.8 9,743 95.6 95.2-96.0

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**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

***Housing stress includes those who report always or usually worried about rent or mortgage payment.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2012 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2012 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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