2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 3 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 3 607 48 6.9 4.9- 9.5 559 93.1 90.5-95.1
GENDER
Male 268 24 7.5 4.7-11.7 244 92.5 88.3-95.3
Female 339 24 6.3 3.9- 9.9 315 93.7 90.1-96.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 476 40 7.5 5.2-10.6 436 92.5 89.4-94.8
Non-Hispanic Black 72 *** *** *** 67 94.9 87.3-98.1
Other 57 *** *** *** 54 95.2 83.4-98.8
AGE
18-44 182 *** *** *** 179 98.8 96.0-99.7
44-64 231 19 9.4 5.6-15.3 212 90.6 84.7-94.4
65+ 188 26 14.1 9.3-21.0 162 85.9 79.0-90.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 246 32 10.9 7.3-16.0 214 89.1 84.0-92.7
Some College + 359 16 3.3 2.0- 5.6 343 96.7 94.4-98.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 304 36 10.3 7.1-14.8 268 89.7 85.2-92.9
$50,000+ 192 *** *** *** 186 97.8 94.9-99.1

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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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