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2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 9 & 10 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 9 & 10 935 67 6.5 4.9- 8.6 868 93.5 91.4-95.1
GENDER
Male 392 39 7.8 5.3-11.2 353 92.2 88.8-94.7
Female 543 28 5.4 3.5- 8.3 515 94.6 91.7-96.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 605 46 7.1 5.0- 9.9 559 92.9 90.1-95.0
Non-Hispanic Black 256 16 5.6 3.2- 9.4 240 94.4 90.6-96.8
Other 63 *** *** *** 59 94.5 79.9-98.7
AGE
18-44 238 *** *** *** 237 99.7 97.6- 100
44-64 383 24 6.6 4.2-10.4 359 93.4 89.6-95.8
65+ 304 42 19.1 13.7-26.0 262 80.9 74.0-86.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 402 36 9.0 6.1-13.0 366 91.0 87.0-93.9
Some College + 528 31 4.4 2.9- 6.5 497 95.6 93.5-97.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 445 36 6.9 4.7-10.2 409 93.1 89.8-95.3
$50,000+ 289 15 4.8 2.8- 8.2 274 95.2 91.8-97.2

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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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