2015 BRFSS Survey Results: 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%)
TOTAL 6,655 404 4.7 4.2- 5.3 6,251 95.3 94.7-95.8
GENDER
Male 2,854 210 5.6 4.8- 6.6 2,644 94.4 93.4-95.2
Female 3,801 194 3.9 3.3- 4.6 3,607 96.1 95.4-96.7
RACE/ETHNICITY
Non-Hispanic White 4,464 320 5.7 5.0- 6.5 4,144 94.3 93.5-95.0
Non-Hispanic Black 1,301 68 3.7 2.7- 5.0 1,233 96.3 95.0-97.3
Non-Hispanic Am Indian 91 *** *** *** 83 91.3 81.0-96.3
Non-Hispanic Other 215 *** *** *** 211 98.3 94.9-99.5
Hispanic 493 *** *** *** 489 99.4 98.1-99.8
AGE
18-34 1,260 *** *** *** 1,258 99.8 99.1- 100
35-44 937 *** *** *** 930 99.4 98.4-99.8
45-54 1,162 42 3.6 2.6- 5.1 1,120 96.4 94.9-97.4
55-64 1,328 100 7.5 5.9- 9.5 1,228 92.5 90.5-94.1
65-74 1,129 124 11.4 9.4-13.8 1,005 88.6 86.2-90.6
75+ 746 128 17.9 14.7-21.7 618 82.1 78.3-85.3
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 705 67 7.6 5.7-10.2 638 92.4 89.8-94.3
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,856 132 5.2 4.3- 6.3 1,724 94.8 93.7-95.7
Some Post-H.S. 1,838 114 4.6 3.7- 5.6 1,724 95.4 94.4-96.3
College Graduate 2,225 90 2.7 2.2- 3.4 2,135 97.3 96.6-97.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 653 65 8.2 6.0-11.2 588 91.8 88.8-94.0
$15,000- 24,999 1,092 79 6.7 5.1- 8.7 1,013 93.3 91.3-94.9
$25,000- 34,999 582 42 5.4 3.8- 7.7 540 94.6 92.3-96.2
$35,000- 49,999 744 39 4.2 2.9- 6.0 705 95.8 94.0-97.1
$50,000-74,999 815 40 3.6 2.5- 5.2 775 96.4 94.8-97.5
$75,000+ 1,426 56 2.7 2.0- 3.6 1,370 97.3 96.4-98.0
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,734 249 12.9 11.1-14.9 1,485 87.1 85.1-88.9
No 4,780 148 2.2 1.9- 2.7 4,632 97.8 97.3-98.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 897 98 8.9 7.0-11.3 799 91.1 88.7-93.0
Non-Veteran 5,738 305 4.1 3.6- 4.7 5,433 95.9 95.3-96.4
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 1,966 75 3.6 2.7- 4.7 1,891 96.4 95.3-97.3
Regional City or Suburban 1,439 85 4.6 3.6- 5.8 1,354 95.4 94.2-96.4
Rural 3,250 244 5.7 5.0- 6.7 3,006 94.3 93.3-95.0

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2015 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2015 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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