2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 535 35 5.1 3.4- 7.6 500 94.9 92.4-96.6
GENDER
Male 257 22 6.7 3.9-11.3 235 93.3 88.7-96.1
Female 278 13 3.5 1.9- 6.4 265 96.5 93.6-98.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 364 26 6.2 3.9- 9.7 338 93.8 90.3-96.1
Non-Hispanic Black 69 *** *** *** 66 98.1 91.3-99.6
Other 102 *** *** *** 96 96.1 90.8-98.4
AGE
18-44 183 *** *** *** 182 99.7 98.2- 100
45-64 165 *** *** *** 158 96.9 93.1-98.6
65+ 178 26 17.8 11.4-26.8 152 82.2 73.2-88.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 212 21 7.9 4.6-13.2 191 92.1 86.8-95.4
Some Post-H.S. 166 *** *** *** 160 97.6 94.4-99.0
College Graduate 156 *** *** *** 148 96.2 92.4-98.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 270 23 7.9 4.9-12.7 247 92.1 87.3-95.1
$50,000+ 161 *** *** *** 157 98.2 95.0-99.4
Don't know/Not Sure 92 *** *** *** 84 96.4 91.7-98.5

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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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