2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Regions 1 & 2 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 6,496 366 4.6 4.0- 5.2 6,130 95.4 94.8-96.0
Regions 1 & 2 1,060 70 4.8 3.6- 6.4 990 95.2 93.6-96.4
GENDER
Male 464 38 5.9 4.0- 8.7 426 94.1 91.3-96.0
Female 596 32 3.8 2.5- 5.7 564 96.2 94.3-97.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 913 62 4.9 3.6- 6.7 851 95.1 93.3-96.4
Non-Hispanic Black 41 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 98 *** *** *** 92 94.7 87.0-97.9
AGE
18-44 275 *** *** *** 275 100 . - .
45-64 374 28 5.7 3.5- 9.1 346 94.3 90.9-96.5
65+ 394 42 10.8 7.7-15.1 352 89.2 84.9-92.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 435 40 6.7 4.6- 9.7 395 93.3 90.3-95.4
Some College + 626 30 3.1 2.0- 4.7 596 96.9 95.3-98.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 538 45 6.9 4.8- 9.7 493 93.1 90.3-95.2
$50,000+ 324 13 2.3 1.1- 4.5 311 97.7 95.5-98.9

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2016 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2016 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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