2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 1 & 2 Demographics

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 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 6,676 362 4.3 3.8- 4.9 6,314 95.7 95.1-96.2
Region 1 & 2 1,008 65 5.3 3.8- 7.2 943 94.7 92.8-96.2
GENDER
Male 440 41 8.1 5.5-12.0 399 91.9 88.0-94.5
Female 568 24 2.6 1.6- 4.1 544 97.4 95.9-98.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 848 55 5.5 3.9- 7.7 793 94.5 92.3-96.1
Non-Hispanic Black 51 *** *** *** 45 94.0 85.1-97.7
Other 102 *** *** *** 98 96.5 89.0-99.0
AGE
18-44 261 *** *** *** 260 99.8 98.6- 100
44-64 363 25 5.9 3.5- 9.9 338 94.1 90.1-96.5
65+ 373 39 12.1 8.2-17.6 334 87.9 82.4-91.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 391 37 8.3 5.5-12.4 354 91.7 87.6-94.5
Some College + 614 28 2.8 1.8- 4.3 586 97.2 95.7-98.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 508 39 6.7 4.4-10.0 469 93.3 90.0-95.6
$50,000+ 302 12 3.0 1.4- 6.4 290 97.0 93.6-98.6

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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.

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