2021 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 4,912 244 4.6 3.9- 5.4 4,668 95.4 94.6-96.1
Medicaid Region 5 1,187 67 5.3 3.9- 7.1 1,120 94.7 92.9-96.1
GENDER
Male 527 42 7.1 5.0-10.1 485 92.9 89.9-95.0
Female 660 25 3.6 2.1- 6.1 635 96.4 93.9-97.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 657 36 5.5 3.8- 8.1 621 94.5 91.9-96.2
Non-Hispanic Black 272 17 5.9 3.2-10.7 255 94.1 89.3-96.8
Other 242 13 3.7 1.6- 8.2 229 96.3 91.8-98.4
AGE
18-44 374 *** *** *** 369 98.3 95.9-99.4
45-64 357 18 6.5 3.9-10.7 339 93.5 89.3-96.1
65+ 428 42 10.4 7.0-15.2 386 89.6 84.8-93.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 434 31 6.2 4.0- 9.4 403 93.8 90.6-96.0
Some Post-H.S. 346 24 6.0 3.6- 9.7 322 94.0 90.3-96.4
College Graduate 402 12 2.7 1.3- 5.7 390 97.3 94.3-98.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 469 36 7.3 4.9-10.9 433 92.7 89.1-95.1
$50,000+ 443 15 3.8 2.1- 6.7 428 96.2 93.3-97.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 272 16 4.7 2.3- 9.1 256 95.3 90.9-97.7

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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