2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 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
Region 5 556 27 4.2 2.6- 6.6 529 95.8 93.4-97.4
GENDER
Male 238 16 6.4 3.6-11.3 222 93.6 88.7-96.4
Female 318 11 2.2 1.1- 4.3 307 97.8 95.7-98.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 342 20 5.3 3.1- 8.9 322 94.7 91.1-96.9
Non-Hispanic Black 144 *** *** *** 140 98.1 94.4-99.3
Other 70 *** *** *** 67 97.5 92.4-99.2
AGE
18-44 208 *** *** *** 207 99.6 97.5-99.9
45-64 182 12 5.7 3.0-10.6 170 94.3 89.4-97.0
65+ 155 14 10.6 5.3-19.8 141 89.4 80.2-94.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 182 11 5.1 2.5-10.3 171 94.9 89.7-97.5
Some Post-H.S. 149 *** *** *** 143 96.2 90.2-98.6
College Graduate 223 *** *** *** 214 97.1 94.0-98.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 228 12 3.8 2.0- 7.4 216 96.2 92.6-98.0
$50,000+ 223 *** *** *** 216 96.5 92.0-98.5
Don't know/Not Sure 102 *** *** *** 94 93.3 84.1-97.3

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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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