2014 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Health Conditions-MALES

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%)
North Carolina 7,237 456 5.1 4.5- 5.7 6,781 94.9 94.3-95.5
-MALES 3,090 239 6.2 5.3- 7.3 2,851 93.8 92.7-94.7
RACE
White 2,226 191 6.9 5.8- 8.1 2,035 93.1 91.9-94.2
African American 523 37 5.6 3.7- 8.3 486 94.4 91.7-96.3
Other Minorities 301 *** *** *** 291 96.5 91.2-98.7
AGE
18-34 597 *** *** *** 595 99.4 97.1-99.9
35-44 427 *** *** *** 421 98.1 95.4-99.2
45-54 477 30 6.3 4.1- 9.6 447 93.7 90.4-95.9
55-64 683 76 12.4 9.6-15.8 607 87.6 84.2-90.4
65-74 541 69 14.0 10.8-18.0 472 86.0 82.0-89.2
75+ 323 55 17.9 13.5-23.2 268 82.1 76.8-86.5
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 442 55 11.6 8.5-15.6 387 88.4 84.4-91.5
H.S. or G.E.D. 835 79 6.8 5.3- 8.6 756 93.2 91.4-94.7
Some Post-H.S. 763 46 4.5 3.2- 6.4 717 95.5 93.6-96.8
College Graduate 1,035 57 3.8 2.8- 5.1 978 96.2 94.9-97.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 321 37 11.2 7.9-15.7 284 88.8 84.3-92.1
$15,000- 24,999 473 51 8.8 6.3-12.2 422 91.2 87.8-93.7
$25,000- 34,999 285 22 7.2 4.1-12.4 263 92.8 87.6-95.9
$35,000- 49,999 377 25 4.6 3.0- 7.1 352 95.4 92.9-97.0
$50,000- 74,999 381 20 3.6 2.2- 5.9 361 96.4 94.1-97.8
$75,000+ 748 49 5.5 3.7- 8.0 699 94.5 92.0-96.3
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 748 129 17.6 14.4-21.4 619 82.4 78.6-85.6
No 2,206 102 3.1 2.5- 3.9 2,104 96.9 96.1-97.5
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 882 101 9.7 7.7-12.0 781 90.3 88.0-92.3
Non-Veteran 2,201 136 5.1 4.1- 6.3 2,065 94.9 93.7-95.9
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,802 162 8.0 6.6- 9.6 1,640 92.0 90.4-93.4
No 1,288 77 3.9 3.0- 5.0 1,211 96.1 95.0-97.0

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2014 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2014 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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