2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 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 4 1,217 43 3.0 2.1- 4.3 1,174 97.0 95.7-97.9
GENDER
Male 512 29 4.8 3.1- 7.5 483 95.2 92.5-96.9
Female 705 14 1.3 0.7- 2.3 691 98.7 97.7-99.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 801 32 3.2 2.1- 5.1 769 96.8 94.9-97.9
Non-Hispanic Black 239 *** *** *** 231 96.5 92.7-98.4
Other 153 *** *** *** 150 98.6 95.3-99.6
AGE
18-44 416 *** *** *** 414 99.7 98.9-99.9
44-64 478 21 4.3 2.7- 6.8 457 95.7 93.2-97.3
65+ 305 20 8.1 4.5-14.3 285 91.9 85.7-95.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 436 17 3.8 2.1- 6.7 419 96.2 93.3-97.9
Some College + 773 24 2.4 1.5- 3.7 749 97.6 96.3-98.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 521 23 4.2 2.5- 6.9 498 95.8 93.1-97.5
$50,000+ 430 *** *** *** 422 99.0 97.8-99.6

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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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