2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 6 & 7 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 6 & 7 1,011 42 3.7 2.5- 5.6 969 96.3 94.4-97.5
GENDER
Male 484 25 4.2 2.5- 6.8 459 95.8 93.2-97.5
Female 527 17 3.3 1.7- 6.4 510 96.7 93.6-98.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 578 30 5.4 3.4- 8.4 548 94.6 91.6-96.6
Non-Hispanic Black 279 *** *** *** 269 98.4 96.0-99.3
Other 154 *** *** *** 152 99.7 98.8-99.9
AGE
18-44 388 *** *** *** 387 99.9 99.6- 100
45-64 398 17 3.3 1.7- 6.3 381 96.7 93.7-98.3
65+ 216 24 14.4 8.8-22.7 192 85.6 77.3-91.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 341 21 5.7 3.2-10.0 320 94.3 90.0-96.8
Some College + 667 21 2.4 1.4- 4.3 646 97.6 95.7-98.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 445 24 4.5 2.7- 7.6 421 95.5 92.4-97.3
$50,000+ 379 *** *** *** 374 99.0 97.3-99.6

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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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