2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 5 824 30 3.5 2.3- 5.3 794 96.5 94.7-97.7
GENDER
Male 353 18 5.3 3.1- 8.9 335 94.7 91.1-96.9
Female 471 12 1.9 1.0- 3.4 459 98.1 96.6-99.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 496 20 4.1 2.5- 6.8 476 95.9 93.2-97.5
Non-Hispanic Black 190 *** *** *** 181 96.2 92.3-98.2
Other 122 *** *** *** 121 99.6 97.0-99.9
AGE
18-44 315 *** *** *** 313 99.6 98.2-99.9
44-64 287 *** *** *** 280 97.5 94.6-98.9
65+ 208 19 12.2 7.3-19.7 189 87.8 80.3-92.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 289 15 5.2 2.8- 9.2 274 94.8 90.8-97.2
Some College + 529 13 2.1 1.1- 3.7 516 97.9 96.3-98.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 349 13 3.4 1.9- 6.1 336 96.6 93.9-98.1
$50,000+ 300 *** *** *** 294 98.2 95.8-99.2

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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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