2019 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 4,266 231 4.4 3.8- 5.1 4,035 95.6 94.9-96.2
Medicaid Region 5 547 36 5.6 3.7- 8.2 511 94.4 91.8-96.3
GENDER
Male 219 23 8.5 5.2-13.7 196 91.5 86.3-94.8
Female 328 13 2.8 1.5- 5.0 315 97.2 95.0-98.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 260 22 6.9 4.3-11.1 238 93.1 88.9-95.7
Non-Hispanic Black 154 *** *** *** 148 97.9 95.0-99.1
Other 133 *** *** *** 125 94.7 89.0-97.5
AGE
18-44 207 *** *** *** 203 97.9 92.5-99.4
45-64 186 15 7.7 4.4-13.1 171 92.3 86.9-95.6
65+ 147 17 10.2 5.8-17.4 130 89.8 82.6-94.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 239 12 3.0 1.5- 5.8 227 97.0 94.2-98.5
Some Post-H.S. 163 13 8.6 4.5-15.7 150 91.4 84.3-95.5
College Graduate 142 11 7.4 4.0-13.5 131 92.6 86.5-96.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 259 17 6.7 3.7-11.7 242 93.3 88.3-96.3
$50,000+ 164 12 4.8 2.5- 8.8 152 95.2 91.2-97.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 115 *** *** *** 108 95.1 89.4-97.8

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 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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