2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 6 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 6 513 28 4.1 2.7- 6.2 485 95.9 93.8-97.3
GENDER
Male 223 15 5.1 2.8- 8.9 208 94.9 91.1-97.2
Female 290 13 3.3 1.8- 5.8 277 96.7 94.2-98.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 282 19 5.2 3.1- 8.5 263 94.8 91.5-96.9
Non-Hispanic Black 151 *** *** *** 144 96.7 92.8-98.5
Other 72 *** *** *** 71 98.9 92.5-99.8
AGE
18-44 187 *** *** *** 186 99.7 98.1- 100
44-64 196 13 5.5 3.0- 9.8 183 94.5 90.2-97.0
65+ 123 14 12.2 6.9-20.7 109 87.8 79.3-93.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 213 11 3.9 2.0- 7.6 202 96.1 92.4-98.0
Some College + 299 17 4.4 2.6- 7.2 282 95.6 92.8-97.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 237 17 5.3 3.1- 9.0 220 94.7 91.0-96.9
$50,000+ 164 *** *** *** 159 97.3 93.2-99.0

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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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