2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 868 68 6.7 5.0- 8.9 800 93.3 91.1-95.0
GENDER
Male 399 44 8.6 6.0-12.2 355 91.4 87.8-94.0
Female 469 24 4.9 3.0- 7.9 445 95.1 92.1-97.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 549 47 7.5 5.3-10.6 502 92.5 89.4-94.7
Non-Hispanic Black 236 15 4.9 2.6- 9.1 221 95.1 90.9-97.4
Other 83 *** *** *** 77 92.9 84.0-97.1
AGE
18-44 266 *** *** *** 260 98.1 95.7-99.2
45-64 316 26 7.6 4.8-11.8 290 92.4 88.2-95.2
65+ 274 36 15.8 10.6-23.0 238 84.2 77.0-89.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 353 34 7.8 5.1-11.7 319 92.2 88.3-94.9
Some Post-H.S. 258 22 6.8 4.1-11.0 236 93.2 89.0-95.9
College Graduate 256 12 4.0 2.1- 7.6 244 96.0 92.4-97.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 428 45 9.5 6.7-13.4 383 90.5 86.6-93.3
$50,000+ 272 12 4.3 2.2- 8.1 260 95.7 91.9-97.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 161 *** *** *** 151 96.1 92.1-98.1

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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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