2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 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 4,892 253 4.2 3.6- 5.0 4,639 95.8 95.0-96.4
Region 1 & 2 811 58 6.7 4.5-10.0 753 93.3 90.0-95.5
GENDER
Male 358 33 7.2 4.7-10.9 325 92.8 89.1-95.3
Female 453 25 6.3 3.1-12.4 428 93.7 87.6-96.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 712 53 6.9 4.5-10.4 659 93.1 89.6-95.5
Non-Hispanic Black 30 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 69 *** *** *** 66 97.8 89.5-99.6
AGE
18-44 201 *** *** *** 199 98.3 90.0-99.7
45-64 279 23 9.9 5.2-18.1 256 90.1 81.9-94.8
65+ 322 33 10.3 6.7-15.5 289 89.7 84.5-93.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 286 32 9.4 5.4-15.9 254 90.6 84.1-94.6
Some College + 523 26 4.5 2.6- 7.5 497 95.5 92.5-97.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 383 36 10.0 5.9-16.4 347 90.0 83.6-94.1
$50,000+ 272 11 2.5 1.2- 5.1 261 97.5 94.9-98.8

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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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