2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you that 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 4,715 289 5.4 4.6- 6.3 4,426 94.6 93.7-95.4
Medicaid Region 4 885 43 4.4 3.0- 6.2 842 95.6 93.8-97.0
GENDER
Male 422 26 5.3 3.4- 8.3 396 94.7 91.7-96.6
Female 463 17 3.5 1.9- 6.2 446 96.5 93.8-98.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 538 28 4.2 2.8- 6.5 510 95.8 93.5-97.2
Non-Hispanic Black 201 *** *** *** 192 94.5 88.5-97.4
Other 146 *** *** *** 140 97.1 93.4-98.8
AGE
18-44 362 *** *** *** 360 99.3 97.3-99.8
45-64 292 15 4.6 2.6- 8.1 277 95.4 91.9-97.4
65+ 214 25 13.4 8.3-20.9 189 86.6 79.1-91.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 277 14 4.3 2.4- 7.8 263 95.7 92.2-97.6
Some Post-H.S. 190 15 6.6 3.6-11.5 175 93.4 88.5-96.4
College Graduate 417 14 2.9 1.5- 5.7 403 97.1 94.3-98.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 310 23 7.1 4.3-11.4 287 92.9 88.6-95.7
$50,000+ 393 11 2.7 1.4- 5.4 382 97.3 94.6-98.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 173 *** *** *** 164 96.1 92.0-98.1

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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