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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Diabetes

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	Total Respond.^	1 or more times/day	1 or more times/week	1 or more times/month	1 or more times/year	Never
TOTAL	946	545	60.3	55.6-64.8	236	23.5	19.8-27.7	57	5.8	3.9- 8.4	18	1.2	0.6- 2.2	90	9.2	6.7-12.6
GENDER
Male	370	197	57.1	49.8-64.2	108	24.8	19.4-31.2	26	7.2	4.2-12.1	6	0.9	0.4- 2.3	33	9.9	6.0-16.0
Female	576	348	63.3	57.3-69.0	128	22.3	17.5-27.9	31	4.4	2.7- 7.1	12	1.5	0.7- 3.2	57	8.5	5.8-12.4
RACE
White	598	330	58.7	52.8-64.3	160	25.4	20.7-30.8	35	4.8	3.0- 7.4	11	0.8	0.4- 1.9	62	10.3	7.1-14.8
African American	292	180	64.7	56.0-72.4	65	17.8	12.7-24.2	19	8.4	4.1-16.6	5	1.7	0.6- 4.5	23	7.5	3.8-14.2
Asian	4	3	93.8	58.5-99.4	0	0.0	. - .	1	6.2	0.6-41.5	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .
Native American	33	23	57.2	27.6-82.4	6	37.7	13.4-70.2	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	4	5.2	1.5-16.2
Other Minorities	17	8	56.2	27.4-81.4	5	26.3	9.1-55.9	1	3.8	0.5-23.8	2	10.6	1.7-44.6	1	3.1	0.4-20.1
HISPANIC
Hispanic	11	4	25.8	8.3-57.0	3	48.6	19.2-79.0	2	16.6	3.9-49.3	1	2.2	0.3-15.0	1	6.9	0.9-37.3
-English Speaking	5	3	69.2	23.9-94.1	0	0.0	. - .	1	24.4	3.4-74.9	1	6.4	0.8-38.1	0	0.0	. - .
-Spanish Speaking	6	1	3.8	0.4-25.9	3	73.2	33.5-93.7	1	12.7	1.6-56.8	0	0.0	. - .	1	10.3	1.3-50.9
Non-Hispanic	935	541	60.6	55.8-65.1	233	23.3	19.6-27.5	55	5.7	3.8- 8.3	17	1.2	0.6- 2.2	89	9.2	6.7-12.6
AGE
18-24	7	4	51.2	18.1-83.3	0	0.0	. - .	1	10.7	1.4-50.1	1	21.7	3.2-70.0	1	16.4	2.3-62.4
25-34	27	10	41.6	19.1-68.3	7	35.3	14.1-64.5	3	7.4	2.0-23.6	2	7.9	1.7-29.9	5	7.7	2.6-20.8
35-44	90	51	63.4	48.9-75.8	28	28.1	17.2-42.2	3	2.9	0.8-10.4	1	0.3	0.0- 2.0	7	5.4	2.0-13.3
45-54	156	99	63.4	51.0-74.2	37	26.6	17.2-38.6	8	2.9	1.1- 7.6	2	0.4	0.1- 1.8	10	6.7	2.1-19.3
55-64	240	139	59.2	50.0-67.8	56	18.7	13.2-25.9	16	10.1	5.6-17.5	4	0.8	0.2- 2.8	25	11.1	6.4-18.6
65-74	237	136	63.8	53.9-72.6	57	20.8	14.3-29.2	16	4.7	2.1-10.3	4	0.5	0.2- 1.5	24	10.3	4.9-20.3
75+	185	103	56.7	46.0-66.8	50	25.8	17.9-35.7	10	4.9	1.5-15.0	4	1.9	0.6- 6.3	18	10.6	5.6-19.3
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S.	301	174	59.2	50.6-67.2	72	21.7	15.7-29.3	15	7.7	3.5-15.9	7	2.0	0.8- 5.0	33	9.4	5.6-15.4
H.S. or G.E.D.	292	174	65.4	57.0-73.0	68	18.8	13.3-25.9	18	4.8	2.6- 8.9	4	0.9	0.3- 2.9	28	10.1	5.7-17.1
Some Post-H.S.	199	109	57.9	47.9-67.2	53	28.2	20.4-37.7	9	2.1	1.0- 4.5	5	1.3	0.4- 4.4	23	10.5	5.6-18.7
College Graduate	151	85	55.9	44.0-67.1	43	28.5	19.1-40.2	15	9.2	4.8-16.9	2	0.3	0.1- 1.3	6	6.2	1.8-19.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000	227	144	59.2	48.5-69.0	42	15.1	10.0-22.2	14	8.9	4.0-18.6	1	0.8	0.1- 5.3	26	16.0	8.6-27.9
$15,000- 24,999	176	108	72.7	63.1-80.6	44	19.2	12.5-28.4	9	3.1	1.3- 7.3	4	1.0	0.3- 3.2	11	3.9	1.9- 8.1
$25,000- 34,999	94	57	65.8	51.2-77.9	23	20.9	11.9-34.0	4	6.4	1.5-23.8	1	0.4	0.0- 2.5	9	6.5	2.7-15.1
$35,000- 49,999	83	41	54.0	38.8-68.5	27	34.9	21.9-50.6	4	2.5	0.9- 6.7	3	1.0	0.3- 3.3	8	7.6	3.2-16.9
$50,000-74,999	62	30	47.6	31.1-64.7	22	33.6	19.3-51.8	3	5.3	1.6-16.3	3	1.9	0.4- 8.1	4	11.6	3.0-35.6
$75,000+	47	23	64.4	44.8-80.2	13	16.8	7.7-33.0	6	8.2	2.7-22.6	1	2.6	0.4-16.4	4	8.0	2.3-24.1
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe	41	21	52.9	36.0-69.1	10	23.4	12.0-40.6	1	1.3	0.2- 9.0	0	0.0	. - .	9	22.4	11.1-39.9
Guilford	36	19	56.9	38.9-73.2	8	26.5	13.2-46.1	2	2.4	0.6- 9.3	2	6.5	1.6-22.6	5	7.8	3.0-18.5
Mecklenburg	38	21	56.3	38.4-72.7	12	30.6	16.6-49.3	4	10.2	3.7-25.3	1	2.9	0.4-17.9	0	0.0	. - .
Orange	25	15	54.5	33.0-74.5	5	21.3	8.5-44.2	2	10.7	2.4-36.4	0	0.0	. - .	3	13.5	4.1-36.4
Wake	31	19	57.8	37.3-75.9	6	17.3	7.4-35.4	4	18.6	6.4-43.2	0	0.0	. - .	2	6.4	1.3-25.4
Chatham/Lee	33	15	46.5	28.4-65.6	11	36.6	19.8-57.5	2	3.1	0.7-12.2	0	0.0	. - .	5	13.8	5.2-31.5
Nash/Wilson	44	27	57.9	40.9-73.2	9	25.0	12.7-43.4	4	7.2	2.5-18.8	0	0.0	. - .	4	9.9	3.5-24.9
Craven/Pamlico	54	27	51.3	36.7-65.7	14	23.4	13.7-37.2	5	10.5	4.2-23.8	3	6.4	2.0-18.4	5	8.4	3.3-19.7
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	45	25	46.9	29.8-64.7	17	48.3	30.7-66.4	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.7	0.2-11.5	2	3.1	0.6-13.7
Appalachian/Wilkes	33	21	64.2	45.5-79.5	6	16.9	7.3-34.3	3	9.8	3.1-27.2	1	3.0	0.4-18.7	2	6.0	1.5-21.9
Franklin/Gran./Vance	31	16	48.9	30.5-67.6	11	33.9	18.5-53.6	2	9.0	2.1-30.8	1	3.7	0.5-22.3	1	4.5	0.6-25.8
Graham/Swain/Jackson	48	33	72.4	57.1-83.8	6	12.7	5.3-27.4	4	7.8	2.8-20.2	2	1.7	0.4- 6.6	3	5.4	1.5-17.3
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland	79	39	49.1	37.0-61.3	26	33.2	22.8-45.6	3	3.0	0.9- 9.6	3	3.3	0.9-11.0	8	11.4	5.0-24.1
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson	54	36	65.5	50.0-78.2	13	24.1	13.6-39.1	2	6.0	1.5-21.1	0	0.0	. - .	3	4.3	1.3-13.8
Northeast NC I	71	33	42.0	30.1-55.0	21	29.7	19.5-42.3	7	14.0	6.4-27.9	1	0.8	0.1- 5.4	9	13.5	6.4-26.2
Northeast NC II	63	38	62.7	48.5-75.0	14	22.6	13.2-36.0	3	4.1	1.1-14.0	0	0.0	. - .	8	10.6	4.5-22.9
Northeastern Partnership	134	71	54.6	44.6-64.2	35	25.4	18.0-34.6	10	8.0	4.0-15.2	1	0.3	0.0- 2.2	17	11.7	6.6-19.9
Mountain AHEC	132	84	63.6	52.4-73.6	24	20.3	12.7-30.8	7	4.5	1.5-12.7	2	0.2	0.0- 0.7	15	11.4	6.3-19.7
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	417	232	58.9	51.8-65.6	107	24.4	18.8-30.9	27	6.0	3.6- 9.8	10	1.7	0.7- 3.8	41	9.1	5.9-13.8
Piedmont	330	191	61.5	54.0-68.5	88	23.1	17.6-29.7	18	5.6	2.9-10.3	4	1.0	0.3- 2.8	29	8.9	5.1-15.0
Western NC	199	122	59.3	49.5-68.3	41	23.2	15.9-32.4	12	6.0	2.6-13.3	4	0.7	0.2- 2.5	20	10.8	6.3-17.9

Total
Respond.^

1 or more times/day

1 or more times/week

1 or more times/month

1 or more times/year

Never

C.I.(95%)

TOTAL

946

545

60.3

55.6-64.8

236

23.5

19.8-27.7

5.8

3.9- 8.4

1.2

0.6- 2.2

9.2

6.7-12.6

GENDER

Male

370

197

57.1

49.8-64.2

108

24.8

19.4-31.2

7.2

4.2-12.1

0.9

0.4- 2.3

9.9

6.0-16.0

Female

576

348

63.3

57.3-69.0

128

22.3

17.5-27.9

4.4

2.7- 7.1

1.5

0.7- 3.2

8.5

5.8-12.4

RACE

White

598

330

58.7

52.8-64.3

160

25.4

20.7-30.8

4.8

3.0- 7.4

0.8

0.4- 1.9

10.3

7.1-14.8

African American

292

180

64.7

56.0-72.4

17.8

12.7-24.2

8.4

4.1-16.6

1.7

0.6- 4.5

7.5

3.8-14.2

Asian

93.8

58.5-99.4

0.0

. - .

6.2

0.6-41.5

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

Native American

57.2

27.6-82.4

37.7

13.4-70.2

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

5.2

1.5-16.2

Other Minorities

56.2

27.4-81.4

26.3

9.1-55.9

3.8

0.5-23.8

10.6

1.7-44.6

3.1

0.4-20.1

HISPANIC

Hispanic

25.8

8.3-57.0

48.6

19.2-79.0

16.6

3.9-49.3

2.2

0.3-15.0

6.9

0.9-37.3

-English Speaking

69.2

23.9-94.1

0.0

. - .

24.4

3.4-74.9

6.4

0.8-38.1

0.0

. - .

-Spanish Speaking

3.8

0.4-25.9

73.2

33.5-93.7

12.7

1.6-56.8

0.0

. - .

10.3

1.3-50.9

Non-Hispanic

935

541

60.6

55.8-65.1

233

23.3

19.6-27.5

5.7

3.8- 8.3

1.2

0.6- 2.2

9.2

6.7-12.6

AGE

18-24

51.2

18.1-83.3

0.0

. - .

10.7

1.4-50.1

21.7

3.2-70.0

16.4

2.3-62.4

25-34

41.6

19.1-68.3

35.3

14.1-64.5

7.4

2.0-23.6

7.9

1.7-29.9

7.7

2.6-20.8

35-44

63.4

48.9-75.8

28.1

17.2-42.2

2.9

0.8-10.4

0.3

0.0- 2.0

5.4

2.0-13.3

45-54

156

63.4

51.0-74.2

26.6

17.2-38.6

2.9

1.1- 7.6

0.4

0.1- 1.8

6.7

2.1-19.3

55-64

240

139

59.2

50.0-67.8

18.7

13.2-25.9

10.1

5.6-17.5

0.8

0.2- 2.8

11.1

6.4-18.6

65-74

237

136

63.8

53.9-72.6

20.8

14.3-29.2

4.7

2.1-10.3

0.5

0.2- 1.5

10.3

4.9-20.3

75+

185

103

56.7

46.0-66.8

25.8

17.9-35.7

4.9

1.5-15.0

1.9

0.6- 6.3

10.6

5.6-19.3

EDUCATION

Less Than H.S.

301

174

59.2

50.6-67.2

21.7

15.7-29.3

7.7

3.5-15.9

2.0

0.8- 5.0

9.4

5.6-15.4

H.S. or G.E.D.

292

174

65.4

57.0-73.0

18.8

13.3-25.9

4.8

2.6- 8.9

0.9

0.3- 2.9

10.1

5.7-17.1

Some Post-H.S.

199

109

57.9

47.9-67.2

28.2

20.4-37.7

2.1

1.0- 4.5

1.3

0.4- 4.4

10.5

5.6-18.7

College Graduate

151

55.9

44.0-67.1

28.5

19.1-40.2

9.2

4.8-16.9

0.3

0.1- 1.3

6.2

1.8-19.5

HOUSEHOLD INCOME

Less than $15,000

227

144

59.2

48.5-69.0

15.1

10.0-22.2

8.9

4.0-18.6

0.8

0.1- 5.3

16.0

8.6-27.9

$15,000- 24,999

176

108

72.7

63.1-80.6

19.2

12.5-28.4

3.1

1.3- 7.3

1.0

0.3- 3.2

3.9

1.9- 8.1

$25,000- 34,999

65.8

51.2-77.9

20.9

11.9-34.0

6.4

1.5-23.8

0.4

0.0- 2.5

6.5

2.7-15.1

$35,000- 49,999

54.0

38.8-68.5

34.9

21.9-50.6

2.5

0.9- 6.7

1.0

0.3- 3.3

7.6

3.2-16.9

$50,000-74,999

47.6

31.1-64.7

33.6

19.3-51.8

5.3

1.6-16.3

1.9

0.4- 8.1

11.6

3.0-35.6

$75,000+

64.4

44.8-80.2

16.8

7.7-33.0

8.2

2.7-22.6

2.6

0.4-16.4

8.0

2.3-24.1

COUNTY/REGION**

Buncombe

52.9

36.0-69.1

23.4

12.0-40.6

1.3

0.2- 9.0

0.0

. - .

22.4

11.1-39.9

Guilford

56.9

38.9-73.2

26.5

13.2-46.1

2.4

0.6- 9.3

6.5

1.6-22.6

7.8

3.0-18.5

Mecklenburg

56.3

38.4-72.7

30.6

16.6-49.3

10.2

3.7-25.3

2.9

0.4-17.9

0.0

. - .

Orange

54.5

33.0-74.5

21.3

8.5-44.2

10.7

2.4-36.4

0.0

. - .

13.5

4.1-36.4

Wake

57.8

37.3-75.9

17.3

7.4-35.4

18.6

6.4-43.2

0.0

. - .

6.4

1.3-25.4

Chatham/Lee

46.5

28.4-65.6

36.6

19.8-57.5

3.1

0.7-12.2

0.0

. - .

13.8

5.2-31.5

Nash/Wilson

57.9

40.9-73.2

25.0

12.7-43.4

7.2

2.5-18.8

0.0

. - .

9.9

3.5-24.9

Craven/Pamlico

51.3

36.7-65.7

23.4

13.7-37.2

10.5

4.2-23.8

6.4

2.0-18.4

8.4

3.3-19.7

Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

46.9

29.8-64.7

48.3

30.7-66.4

0.0

. - .

1.7

0.2-11.5

3.1

0.6-13.7

Appalachian/Wilkes

64.2

45.5-79.5

16.9

7.3-34.3

9.8

3.1-27.2

3.0

0.4-18.7

6.0

1.5-21.9

Franklin/Gran./Vance

48.9

30.5-67.6

33.9

18.5-53.6

9.0

2.1-30.8

3.7

0.5-22.3

4.5

0.6-25.8

Graham/Swain/Jackson

72.4

57.1-83.8

12.7

5.3-27.4

7.8

2.8-20.2

1.7

0.4- 6.6

5.4

1.5-17.3

Hoke/Robeson/Scotland

49.1

37.0-61.3

33.2

22.8-45.6

3.0

0.9- 9.6

3.3

0.9-11.0

11.4

5.0-24.1

Bladen/Columbus/Sampson

65.5

50.0-78.2

24.1

13.6-39.1

6.0

1.5-21.1

0.0

. - .

4.3

1.3-13.8

Northeast NC I

42.0

30.1-55.0

29.7

19.5-42.3

14.0

6.4-27.9

0.8

0.1- 5.4

13.5

6.4-26.2

Northeast NC II

62.7

48.5-75.0

22.6

13.2-36.0

4.1

1.1-14.0

0.0

. - .

10.6

4.5-22.9

Northeastern Partnership

134

54.6

44.6-64.2

25.4

18.0-34.6

8.0

4.0-15.2

0.3

0.0- 2.2

11.7

6.6-19.9

Mountain AHEC

132

63.6

52.4-73.6

20.3

12.7-30.8

4.5

1.5-12.7

0.2

0.0- 0.7

11.4

6.3-19.7

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

417

232

58.9

51.8-65.6

107

24.4

18.8-30.9

6.0

3.6- 9.8

1.7

0.7- 3.8

9.1

5.9-13.8

Piedmont

330

191

61.5

54.0-68.5

23.1

17.6-29.7

5.6

2.9-10.3

1.0

0.3- 2.8

8.9

5.1-15.0

Western NC

199

122

59.3

49.5-68.3

23.2

15.9-32.4

6.0

2.6-13.3

0.7

0.2- 2.5

10.8

6.3-17.9

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^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = 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.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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