2015 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 6,655 404 4.7 4.2- 5.3 6,251 95.3 94.7-95.8
-Piedmont 3,342 166 4.2 3.5- 5.0 3,176 95.8 95.0-96.5
GENDER
Male 1,427 84 5.3 4.1- 6.7 1,343 94.7 93.3-95.9
Female 1,915 82 3.2 2.5- 4.2 1,833 96.8 95.8-97.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 2,154 132 5.4 4.4- 6.5 2,022 94.6 93.5-95.6
Non-Hispanic Black 689 28 3.0 1.8- 5.0 661 97.0 95.0-98.2
Other 448 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-34 689 *** *** *** *** *** ***
35-44 517 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-54 627 18 3.2 1.9- 5.3 609 96.8 94.7-98.1
55-64 606 39 7.3 5.1-10.4 567 92.7 89.6-94.9
65-74 513 57 10.7 8.1-14.2 456 89.3 85.8-91.9
75+ 336 49 16.7 12.2-22.6 287 83.3 77.4-87.8
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 342 25 6.5 4.0-10.3 317 93.5 89.7-96.0
H.S. or G.E.D. 832 51 4.9 3.6- 6.5 781 95.1 93.5-96.4
Some Post-H.S. 872 52 4.8 3.5- 6.4 820 95.2 93.6-96.5
College Graduate 1,276 37 2.0 1.4- 2.8 1,239 98.0 97.2-98.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 293 29 8.7 5.6-13.3 264 91.3 86.7-94.4
$15,000- 24,999 500 40 8.1 5.6-11.5 460 91.9 88.5-94.4
$25,000- 34,999 284 15 4.3 2.4- 7.6 269 95.7 92.4-97.6
$35,000- 49,999 356 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000- 74,999 389 17 3.8 2.3- 6.4 372 96.2 93.6-97.7
$75,000+ 833 21 1.6 1.0- 2.6 812 98.4 97.4-99.0
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 735 94 12.4 9.8-15.6 641 87.6 84.4-90.2
No 2,538 69 2.1 1.6- 2.7 2,469 97.9 97.3-98.4
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 372 38 9.9 6.8-14.2 334 90.1 85.8-93.2
Non-Veteran 2,957 128 3.6 2.9- 4.4 2,829 96.4 95.6-97.1
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 1,799 67 3.6 2.7- 4.8 1,732 96.4 95.2-97.3
Regional City or Suburban 886 57 5.0 3.7- 6.7 829 95.0 93.3-96.3
Rural 657 42 4.8 3.4- 6.7 615 95.2 93.3-96.6

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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.

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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