2023 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 4,071 203 4.8 3.9- 5.8 3,868 95.2 94.2-96.1
Medicaid Region 5 973 53 3.7 2.4- 5.9 920 96.3 94.1-97.6
GENDER
Male 410 29 5.0 2.9- 8.4 381 95.0 91.6-97.1
Female 563 24 2.6 1.1- 5.9 539 97.4 94.1-98.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 410 22 4.9 2.8- 8.4 388 95.1 91.6-97.2
Non-Hispanic Black 165 *** *** *** 158 96.8 92.7-98.7
Other 384 24 1.1 0.4- 3.3 360 98.9 96.7-99.6
AGE
18-44 321 *** *** *** 319 100 100- 100
45-64 346 20 4.7 2.4- 9.1 326 95.3 90.9-97.6
65+ 291 30 7.9 4.3-13.9 261 92.1 86.1-95.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 318 21 4.2 2.0- 8.6 297 95.8 91.4-98.0
Some Post-H.S. 302 15 3.9 1.7- 8.5 287 96.1 91.5-98.3
College Graduate 350 17 2.9 1.3- 6.4 333 97.1 93.6-98.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 357 23 3.9 1.7- 8.7 334 96.1 91.3-98.3
$50,000+ 394 17 2.8 1.3- 6.0 377 97.2 94.0-98.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 213 13 5.1 2.3-11.0 200 94.9 89.0-97.7

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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