2017 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 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 8 717 43 4.3 2.9- 6.3 674 95.7 93.7-97.1
GENDER
Male 314 16 3.1 1.7- 5.8 298 96.9 94.2-98.3
Female 403 27 5.4 3.2- 8.9 376 94.6 91.1-96.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 405 28 5.3 3.3- 8.3 377 94.7 91.7-96.7
Non-Hispanic Black 138 *** *** *** 132 97.8 94.2-99.2
Other 174 *** *** *** 165 97.8 94.9-99.0
AGE
18-44 231 *** *** *** 230 99.1 93.6-99.9
45-64 252 *** *** *** 245 98.7 96.9-99.5
65+ 231 35 15.5 10.4-22.5 196 84.5 77.5-89.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 309 29 6.1 3.7-10.0 280 93.9 90.0-96.3
Some College + 407 14 2.7 1.4- 5.1 393 97.3 94.9-98.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 373 21 3.3 1.8- 6.1 352 96.7 93.9-98.2
$50,000+ 204 *** *** *** 196 95.7 90.2-98.1

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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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