2021 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

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
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 499 28 6.5 3.6-11.6 471 93.5 88.4-96.4
Region 3 477 27 5.0 3.3- 7.6 450 95.0 92.4-96.7
Region 4 735 33 4.1 2.7- 6.1 702 95.9 93.9-97.3
Region 5 664 34 4.7 3.2- 7.0 630 95.3 93.0-96.8
Region 6 536 32 5.5 3.8- 8.0 504 94.5 92.0-96.2
Region 7 705 22 3.5 2.2- 5.7 683 96.5 94.3-97.8
Region 8 797 43 4.7 3.1- 7.1 754 95.3 92.9-96.9
Region 9 & 10 499 25 4.3 2.9- 6.5 474 95.7 93.5-97.1
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,846 96 5.0 3.8- 6.4 1,750 95.0 93.6-96.2
Piedmont 2,445 112 4.0 3.2- 5.1 2,333 96.0 94.9-96.8
Western NC 621 36 6.3 3.8-10.2 585 93.7 89.8-96.2
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 412 21 6.3 3.0-12.6 391 93.7 87.4-97.0
Northwest 719 44 6.0 4.2- 8.7 675 94.0 91.3-95.8
Charlotte 594 25 3.6 2.3- 5.6 569 96.4 94.4-97.7
Greensboro 514 29 5.2 3.4- 8.0 485 94.8 92.0-96.6
Southern Regional 788 51 5.7 4.0- 8.0 737 94.3 92.0-96.0
Southeast 368 13 4.2 2.3- 7.7 355 95.8 92.3-97.7
Wake 819 25 2.8 1.8- 4.4 794 97.2 95.6-98.2
Area L & Eastern 698 36 5.1 3.4- 7.4 662 94.9 92.6-96.6
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 524 28 6.2 3.4-11.0 496 93.8 89.0-96.6
Region 2 743 41 4.9 3.4- 7.0 702 95.1 93.0-96.6
Region 3 749 35 4.0 2.7- 6.0 714 96.0 94.0-97.3
Region 4 1,048 39 3.8 2.6- 5.5 1,009 96.2 94.5-97.4
Region 5 1,187 67 5.3 3.9- 7.1 1,120 94.7 92.9-96.1
Region 6 661 34 4.6 3.2- 6.7 627 95.4 93.3-96.8

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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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