2014 BRFSS Survey Results: Piedmont North Carolina**

Chronic Health Conditions

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

(Ever told) you had angina or coronary heart disease?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 7,219 492 5.0 4.5- 5.5 6,727 95.0 94.5-95.5
-Piedmont NC 3,972 237 4.1 3.5- 4.8 3,735 95.9 95.2-96.5
GENDER
Male 1,723 110 4.3 3.5- 5.3 1,613 95.7 94.7-96.5
Female 2,249 127 4.0 3.2- 4.9 2,122 96.0 95.1-96.8
RACE
White 2,774 186 4.8 4.0- 5.7 2,588 95.2 94.3-96.0
African American 811 41 3.2 2.2- 4.6 770 96.8 95.4-97.8
Other minorities 331 *** *** *** *** *** ***
HISPANIC
Hispanic 324 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic 3,617 232 4.4 3.8- 5.1 3,385 95.6 94.9-96.2
AGE
18-34 745 *** *** *** *** *** ***
35-54 1,198 31 2.9 1.9- 4.2 1,167 97.1 95.8-98.1
55-64 767 53 5.9 4.3- 7.9 714 94.1 92.1-95.7
65-74 695 73 10.2 7.9-13.1 622 89.8 86.9-92.1
75+ 495 79 16.4 13.0-20.5 416 83.6 79.5-87.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 485 39 6.4 4.5- 9.1 446 93.6 90.9-95.5
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,001 66 4.4 3.3- 5.7 935 95.6 94.3-96.7
Some Post-H.S. 1,006 58 3.6 2.7- 4.8 948 96.4 95.2-97.3
College Graduate 1,462 73 3.3 2.5- 4.3 1,389 96.7 95.7-97.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 440 41 7.1 4.9-10.3 399 92.9 89.7-95.1
$15,000- 24,999 621 49 5.2 3.8- 7.1 572 94.8 92.9-96.2
$25,000- 34,999 353 21 4.7 2.7- 8.0 332 95.3 92.0-97.3
$35,000- 49,999 433 21 2.3 1.4- 3.8 412 97.7 96.2-98.6
$50,000+ 1,340 62 3.4 2.6- 4.6 1,278 96.6 95.4-97.4
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 958 130 11.4 9.3-13.8 828 88.6 86.2-90.7
No 2,865 98 2.3 1.8- 2.9 2,767 97.7 97.1-98.2
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 470 51 8.6 6.3-11.6 419 91.4 88.4-93.7
Non-Veteran 3,492 185 3.6 3.0- 4.2 3,307 96.4 95.8-97.0
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,515 90 4.4 3.5- 5.6 1,425 95.6 94.4-96.5
No 2,457 147 3.9 3.3- 4.8 2,310 96.1 95.2-96.7

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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.

Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
**Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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