2023 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 4,071 203 4.8 3.9- 5.8 3,868 95.2 94.2-96.1
Region 8 695 42 4.7 2.9- 7.7 653 95.3 92.3-97.1
GENDER
Male 289 25 7.6 4.3-13.4 264 92.4 86.6-95.7
Female 406 17 1.9 0.8- 4.4 389 98.1 95.6-99.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 289 21 6.4 3.7-10.8 268 93.6 89.2-96.3
Non-Hispanic Black 85 *** *** *** 83 98.4 89.5-99.8
Other 314 19 1.8 0.6- 5.4 295 98.2 94.6-99.4
AGE
18-44 211 *** *** *** 209 100 100- 100
45-64 255 16 6.8 3.3-13.4 239 93.2 86.6-96.7
65+ 221 24 11.7 6.0-21.6 197 88.3 78.4-94.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 248 15 4.2 2.2- 7.9 233 95.8 92.1-97.8
Some Post-H.S. 209 13 6.2 2.6-14.4 196 93.8 85.6-97.4
College Graduate 235 14 3.6 1.3- 9.6 221 96.4 90.4-98.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 262 17 2.8 1.2- 6.3 245 97.2 93.7-98.8
$50,000+ 269 15 4.9 2.3-10.4 254 95.1 89.6-97.7
Don't know/Not Sure 157 *** *** *** 147 92.9 83.6-97.1

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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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