2020 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 5,817 302 4.5 3.9- 5.2 5,515 95.5 94.8-96.1
Medicaid Region 5 1,395 72 4.2 3.1- 5.6 1,323 95.8 94.4-96.9
GENDER
Male 622 37 5.0 3.3- 7.5 585 95.0 92.5-96.7
Female 773 35 3.4 2.2- 5.2 738 96.6 94.8-97.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 807 36 3.8 2.6- 5.5 771 96.2 94.5-97.4
Non-Hispanic Black 319 23 6.3 3.5-11.2 296 93.7 88.8-96.5
Other 269 13 2.7 1.5- 4.8 256 97.3 95.2-98.5
AGE
18-44 455 *** *** *** 450 99.3 98.1-99.7
45-64 460 27 6.8 4.2-10.7 433 93.2 89.3-95.8
65+ 443 39 7.7 5.1-11.6 404 92.3 88.4-94.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 515 39 6.3 4.2- 9.5 476 93.7 90.5-95.8
Some Post-H.S. 406 19 3.3 2.0- 5.5 387 96.7 94.5-98.0
College Graduate 463 14 2.0 1.1- 3.7 449 98.0 96.3-98.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 607 39 5.6 3.6- 8.5 568 94.4 91.5-96.4
$50,000+ 484 17 2.7 1.6- 4.6 467 97.3 95.4-98.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 274 14 3.5 1.9- 6.3 260 96.5 93.7-98.1

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2020 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2020 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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