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2016 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 6,496 366 4.6 4.0- 5.2 6,130 95.4 94.8-96.0
Region 5 698 35 3.8 2.6- 5.6 663 96.2 94.4-97.4
GENDER
Male 339 22 5.1 3.1- 8.2 317 94.9 91.8-96.9
Female 359 13 2.7 1.4- 5.1 346 97.3 94.9-98.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 438 27 4.6 2.9- 7.0 411 95.4 93.0-97.1
Non-Hispanic Black 161 *** *** *** 155 96.6 91.0-98.8
Other 96 *** *** *** 95 99.2 94.2-99.9
AGE
18-44 263 *** *** *** 259 98.6 95.5-99.6
45-64 231 *** *** *** 222 95.8 91.5-98.0
65+ 191 21 8.8 5.5-13.8 170 91.2 86.2-94.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 223 12 4.1 2.2- 7.8 211 95.9 92.2-97.8
Some College + 475 23 3.6 2.2- 5.9 452 96.4 94.1-97.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 301 19 5.7 3.3- 9.6 282 94.3 90.4-96.7
$50,000+ 274 11 2.7 1.5- 5.1 263 97.3 94.9-98.5

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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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