2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

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
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 768 53 5.2 3.6- 7.5 715 94.8 92.5-96.4
Region 3 400 26 5.0 3.2- 7.8 374 95.0 92.2-96.8
Region 4 712 38 5.9 4.1- 8.6 674 94.1 91.4-95.9
Region 5 556 27 4.2 2.6- 6.6 529 95.8 93.4-97.4
Region 6 424 25 6.1 3.6-10.2 399 93.9 89.8-96.4
Region 7 623 32 5.0 3.3- 7.4 591 95.0 92.6-96.7
Region 8 535 35 5.1 3.4- 7.6 500 94.9 92.4-96.6
Region 9 & 10 703 53 6.5 4.7- 9.0 650 93.5 91.0-95.3
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,701 117 6.2 5.0- 7.9 1,584 93.8 92.1-95.0
Piedmont 2,129 112 5.0 3.9- 6.3 2,017 95.0 93.7-96.1
Western NC 891 60 5.1 3.6- 7.2 831 94.9 92.8-96.4
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 679 45 4.8 3.3- 7.1 634 95.2 92.9-96.7
Northwest 648 41 5.5 3.6- 8.3 607 94.5 91.7-96.4
Charlotte 563 31 6.0 4.0- 9.1 532 94.0 90.9-96.0
Greensboro 448 26 5.5 3.4- 8.6 422 94.5 91.4-96.6
Southern Regional 529 34 5.3 3.6- 7.8 495 94.7 92.2-96.4
Southeast 271 17 5.2 3.0- 8.9 254 94.8 91.1-97.0
Wake 682 28 3.5 2.3- 5.4 654 96.5 94.6-97.7
Area L & Eastern 901 67 6.6 4.8- 9.0 834 93.4 91.0-95.2
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 768 53 5.2 3.6- 7.5 715 94.8 92.5-96.4
Region 2 660 36 4.0 2.7- 6.0 624 96.0 94.0-97.3
Region 3 722 38 6.0 4.1- 8.7 684 94.0 91.3-95.9
Region 4 885 43 4.4 3.0- 6.2 842 95.6 93.8-97.0
Region 5 818 51 6.3 4.4- 9.0 767 93.7 91.0-95.6
Region 6 868 68 6.7 5.0- 8.9 800 93.3 91.1-95.0

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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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