2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

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 5 818 51 6.3 4.4- 9.0 767 93.7 91.0-95.6
GENDER
Male 383 32 8.6 5.4-13.4 351 91.4 86.6-94.6
Female 435 19 4.2 2.4- 7.4 416 95.8 92.6-97.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 506 33 7.3 4.6-11.4 473 92.7 88.6-95.4
Non-Hispanic Black 160 *** *** *** 150 94.2 88.7-97.1
Other 152 *** *** *** 144 97.1 94.0-98.7
AGE
18-44 294 *** *** *** 291 99.4 98.2-99.8
45-64 259 18 8.7 4.7-15.4 241 91.3 84.6-95.3
65+ 246 28 15.1 9.5-23.2 218 84.9 76.8-90.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 310 26 7.7 4.8-12.0 284 92.3 88.0-95.2
Some Post-H.S. 249 13 6.5 3.0-13.2 236 93.5 86.8-97.0
College Graduate 258 12 3.6 2.0- 6.5 246 96.4 93.5-98.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 410 29 7.2 4.7-11.1 381 92.8 88.9-95.3
$50,000+ 255 11 5.3 2.3-11.9 244 94.7 88.1-97.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 143 11 6.1 2.5-14.0 132 93.9 86.0-97.5

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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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