2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 4,071 203 4.8 3.9- 5.8 3,868 95.2 94.2-96.1
Region 7 679 33 4.6 3.0- 7.0 646 95.4 93.0-97.0
GENDER
Male 307 19 6.3 3.6-10.8 288 93.7 89.2-96.4
Female 372 14 3.0 1.7- 5.4 358 97.0 94.6-98.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 378 18 5.0 2.8- 8.9 360 95.0 91.1-97.2
Non-Hispanic Black 144 *** *** *** 134 94.0 88.5-96.9
Other 144 *** *** *** 139 97.8 94.1-99.2
AGE
18-44 264 *** *** *** 261 99.1 97.0-99.7
45-64 227 *** *** *** 221 95.8 89.0-98.5
65+ 183 24 14.5 9.4-21.8 159 85.5 78.2-90.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 177 *** *** *** 167 95.9 91.9-97.9
Some Post-H.S. 151 11 6.9 3.1-14.6 140 93.1 85.4-96.9
College Graduate 349 12 3.5 1.9- 6.6 337 96.5 93.4-98.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 177 15 7.7 4.3-13.1 162 92.3 86.9-95.7
$50,000+ 368 12 3.7 1.7- 7.6 356 96.3 92.4-98.3
Don't know/Not Sure 130 *** *** *** 124 96.2 91.1-98.4

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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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