2021 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 4,912 244 4.6 3.9- 5.4 4,668 95.4 94.6-96.1
Region 8 797 43 4.7 3.1- 7.1 754 95.3 92.9-96.9
GENDER
Male 332 25 5.9 3.5- 9.8 307 94.1 90.2-96.5
Female 465 18 3.5 1.8- 6.8 447 96.5 93.2-98.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 456 24 5.1 3.1- 8.3 432 94.9 91.7-96.9
Non-Hispanic Black 150 *** *** *** 141 95.2 87.6-98.3
Other 183 *** *** *** 174 97.4 92.8-99.0
AGE
18-44 227 *** *** *** 225 99.2 96.2-99.8
45-64 240 11 6.1 3.0-12.0 229 93.9 88.0-97.0
65+ 310 29 10.6 6.2-17.4 281 89.4 82.6-93.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 299 18 5.3 2.8- 9.7 281 94.7 90.3-97.2
Some Post-H.S. 218 15 5.0 2.5- 9.8 203 95.0 90.2-97.5
College Graduate 277 *** *** *** 267 96.7 92.3-98.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 326 22 6.5 3.7-11.3 304 93.5 88.7-96.3
$50,000+ 286 11 4.0 2.0- 7.8 275 96.0 92.2-98.0
Don't know/Not Sure 183 *** *** *** 173 97.2 91.2-99.1

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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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