2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

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 4,892 253 4.2 3.6- 5.0 4,639 95.8 95.0-96.4
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 811 58 6.7 4.5-10.0 753 93.3 90.0-95.5
Region 3 & 5 926 46 4.5 3.2- 6.5 880 95.5 93.5-96.8
Region 4 686 31 3.5 2.3- 5.3 655 96.5 94.7-97.7
Region 6 & 7 1,011 42 3.7 2.5- 5.6 969 96.3 94.4-97.5
Region 8 717 43 4.3 2.9- 6.3 674 95.7 93.7-97.1
Region 9 & 10 743 33 3.9 2.6- 5.7 710 96.1 94.3-97.4
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,944 99 4.2 3.1- 5.6 1,845 95.8 94.4-96.9
Piedmont 2,005 83 3.6 2.8- 4.6 1,922 96.4 95.4-97.2
Western NC 945 71 7.2 5.0-10.1 874 92.8 89.9-95.0
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 725 53 8.2 5.4-12.3 672 91.8 87.7-94.6
Northwest 629 43 5.9 4.0- 8.6 586 94.1 91.4-96.0
Charlotte 562 23 2.6 1.6- 4.2 539 97.4 95.8-98.4
Greensboro 381 12 2.6 1.3- 5.0 369 97.4 95.0-98.7
Southern Regional 697 40 2.8 1.8- 4.2 657 97.2 95.8-98.2
Southeast 307 16 6.2 3.6-10.5 291 93.8 89.5-96.4
Wake 635 21 2.8 1.7- 4.5 614 97.2 95.5-98.3
Area L & Eastern 958 45 5.2 3.4- 7.7 913 94.8 92.3-96.6

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 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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