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2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 stroke?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,519 298 3.8 3.3- 4.4 6,221 96.2 95.6-96.7
Region 8 589 29 4.5 3.0- 6.8 560 95.5 93.2-97.0
GENDER
Male 276 14 5.0 2.8- 8.9 262 95.0 91.1-97.2
Female 313 15 4.0 2.3- 7.0 298 96.0 93.0-97.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 366 20 5.6 3.5- 8.9 346 94.4 91.1-96.5
Non-Hispanic Black 120 *** *** *** 114 96.4 91.9-98.4
Other 97 *** *** *** 94 98.7 95.4-99.6
AGE
18-44 192 *** *** *** 188 97.6 93.5-99.2
45-64 214 11 5.1 2.7- 9.4 203 94.9 90.6-97.3
65+ 180 14 8.4 4.8-14.5 166 91.6 85.5-95.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 270 19 6.2 3.8-10.1 251 93.8 89.9-96.2
Some College + 318 *** *** *** 308 97.1 94.2-98.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 303 18 5.2 3.1- 8.6 285 94.8 91.4-96.9
$50,000+ 166 *** *** *** 165 99.6 97.2-99.9

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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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