2016 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 6,496 366 4.6 4.0- 5.2 6,130 95.4 94.8-96.0
Region 6 559 36 5.4 3.7- 7.8 523 94.6 92.2-96.3
GENDER
Male 248 24 8.5 5.4-13.2 224 91.5 86.8-94.6
Female 311 12 2.5 1.3- 4.7 299 97.5 95.3-98.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 313 15 3.8 2.1- 6.7 298 96.2 93.3-97.9
Non-Hispanic Black 161 17 9.9 5.6-16.8 144 90.1 83.2-94.4
Other 78 *** *** *** 76 98.4 93.6-99.6
AGE
18-44 215 *** *** *** 211 97.7 93.8-99.2
45-64 179 *** *** *** 171 96.8 93.6-98.5
65+ 159 24 17.1 10.9-25.6 135 82.9 74.4-89.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 233 16 5.5 3.1- 9.4 217 94.5 90.6-96.9
Some College + 324 20 5.3 3.2- 8.8 304 94.7 91.2-96.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 291 16 4.6 2.5- 8.1 275 95.4 91.9-97.5
$50,000+ 158 *** *** *** 148 93.4 87.0-96.8

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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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