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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	934	689	72.3	67.9-76.3	120	13.5	10.7-16.9	24	2.5	1.5- 4.2	12	1.0	0.5- 2.1	89	10.7	7.9-14.3
GENDER
Male	361	254	71.3	64.2-77.4	50	12.9	9.1-18.1	10	2.7	1.3- 5.5	6	1.2	0.4- 3.5	41	11.9	7.5-18.2
Female	573	435	73.3	67.6-78.3	70	14.1	10.3-18.9	14	2.4	1.2- 4.8	6	0.8	0.3- 2.2	48	9.5	6.5-13.8
RACE
White	587	426	72.7	67.3-77.6	78	13.8	10.4-18.2	13	2.3	1.2- 4.5	9	1.1	0.5- 2.8	61	10.0	7.0-14.1
African American	290	226	73.1	64.0-80.6	34	12.6	8.0-19.1	8	2.4	1.0- 5.8	3	0.9	0.2- 3.3	19	11.1	5.6-20.8
Asian	4	3	78.4	23.5-97.7	0	0.0	. - .	1	21.6	2.3-76.5	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .
Native American	33	25	69.8	40.9-88.5	3	8.6	2.0-30.5	1	1.0	0.1- 7.5	0	0.0	. - .	4	20.6	5.8-52.2
Other Minorities	18	9	56.3	28.4-80.7	4	18.6	5.8-46.0	1	7.3	1.0-38.2	0	0.0	. - .	4	17.8	4.8-48.1
HISPANIC
Hispanic	11	5	36.5	13.3-68.2	1	19.8	3.0-66.4	1	18.2	2.7-64.1	0	0.0	. - .	4	25.6	8.2-57.0
-English Speaking	5	3	69.2	23.9-94.1	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	2	30.8	5.9-76.1
-Spanish Speaking	6	2	19.9	3.4-63.5	1	29.8	4.5-79.3	1	27.3	4.0-77.4	0	0.0	. - .	2	23.0	4.8-63.9
Non-Hispanic	923	684	72.6	68.1-76.6	119	13.5	10.7-16.9	23	2.4	1.4- 4.0	12	1.0	0.5- 2.2	85	10.5	7.7-14.2
AGE
18-24	7	2	29.3	7.2-69.0	2	24.4	5.2-65.5	1	13.9	1.9-57.7	1	21.7	3.2-70.0	1	10.7	1.4-50.1
25-34	26	15	63.4	38.8-82.6	5	19.6	7.4-42.7	1	2.4	0.3-16.0	2	8.1	1.8-30.4	3	6.4	1.8-20.3
35-44	87	59	72.8	59.4-83.0	19	19.5	11.2-31.8	2	2.3	0.4-12.2	2	2.8	0.6-13.2	5	2.5	1.0- 6.5
45-54	159	120	77.0	65.7-85.4	17	8.2	4.4-14.8	6	3.8	1.3-11.0	1	0.3	0.0- 2.3	15	10.7	4.7-22.4
55-64	240	189	73.9	64.7-81.4	29	12.8	7.9-20.0	5	2.2	0.8- 6.0	1	0.1	0.0- 1.0	16	10.9	5.8-19.6
65-74	232	171	69.9	60.2-78.1	28	16.1	9.7-25.5	7	2.9	1.2- 7.2	4	0.7	0.2- 1.9	22	10.4	5.9-17.7
75+	180	130	70.2	59.2-79.2	20	12.0	6.6-21.0	2	1.1	0.2- 4.8	1	0.1	0.0- 0.7	27	16.7	9.7-27.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S.	296	213	69.4	60.9-76.7	36	12.8	8.2-19.5	7	2.1	0.9- 4.8	4	0.6	0.2- 1.7	36	15.1	9.6-23.1
H.S. or G.E.D.	285	210	76.2	68.8-82.3	39	13.8	9.3-20.1	8	2.0	0.7- 5.1	4	0.8	0.2- 2.8	24	7.2	4.1-12.2
Some Post-H.S.	199	151	71.4	61.4-79.7	22	11.7	6.8-19.6	6	3.9	1.5-10.0	3	2.3	0.7- 7.6	17	10.7	5.5-19.7
College Graduate	151	112	71.1	59.3-80.5	23	16.6	9.8-26.7	3	2.4	0.8- 7.3	1	0.3	0.0- 2.3	12	9.6	4.0-21.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000	227	179	69.6	58.7-78.7	17	10.1	5.2-18.7	6	3.8	1.4- 9.9	1	0.1	0.0- 0.7	24	16.3	9.2-27.2
$15,000- 24,999	171	133	80.1	71.3-86.7	21	12.7	7.6-20.5	4	2.2	0.7- 6.6	2	0.4	0.1- 1.6	11	4.5	1.9-10.5
$25,000- 34,999	95	72	74.3	59.8-84.9	13	12.1	6.3-22.0	1	0.2	0.0- 1.6	1	0.6	0.1- 4.2	8	12.8	5.0-28.9
$35,000- 49,999	82	58	69.7	54.6-81.5	14	19.7	10.3-34.4	4	7.2	2.4-19.9	1	0.6	0.1- 4.3	5	2.8	1.0- 7.2
$50,000-74,999	62	42	70.4	52.3-83.8	12	11.7	5.5-23.2	1	1.8	0.2-11.8	1	0.9	0.1- 6.1	6	15.2	5.3-36.5
$75,000+	48	27	71.3	52.5-84.9	9	11.9	4.6-27.6	1	1.8	0.2-12.2	3	6.9	1.8-23.0	8	8.1	2.7-21.7
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe	41	25	62.1	44.5-77.0	10	21.6	10.7-38.7	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	6	16.3	6.8-34.1
Guilford	34	21	65.1	46.3-80.2	9	27.3	14.0-46.6	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.2	0.2- 8.2	3	6.3	1.7-20.6
Mecklenburg	36	26	67.8	47.9-82.8	6	21.3	9.0-42.4	1	3.9	0.5-23.1	1	3.1	0.4-19.0	2	4.0	1.0-14.8
Orange	23	13	49.3	27.7-71.1	6	21.8	8.6-45.1	1	10.8	1.6-47.5	0	0.0	. - .	3	18.2	5.8-44.4
Wake	29	15	50.4	30.6-70.0	10	27.8	14.1-47.5	1	5.4	0.8-29.9	1	5.0	0.7-28.0	2	11.5	2.4-40.7
Chatham/Lee	33	27	80.7	60.8-91.8	2	3.6	0.9-13.6	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.8	0.2-11.8	3	14.0	4.6-35.5
Nash/Wilson	40	30	71.1	52.4-84.6	3	8.1	2.6-22.9	2	11.1	2.8-34.6	0	0.0	. - .	5	9.7	3.9-22.3
Craven/Pamlico	55	48	87.9	75.5-94.5	3	6.6	2.0-19.1	1	0.8	0.1- 5.2	3	4.8	1.5-14.3	0	0.0	. - .
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	45	36	76.1	53.7-89.8	6	18.5	6.3-43.3	0	0.0	. - .	1	2.1	0.3-13.8	2	3.2	0.7-13.8
Appalachian/Wilkes	32	26	81.4	63.1-91.8	2	6.1	1.5-22.5	1	1.6	0.2-10.8	1	3.1	0.4-19.1	2	7.7	1.9-26.4
Franklin/Gran./Vance	32	25	83.4	66.8-92.6	5	13.1	5.0-29.8	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	2	3.5	0.8-13.5
Graham/Swain/Jackson	48	34	63.3	46.7-77.3	7	17.6	8.0-34.6	1	1.8	0.3-11.9	0	0.0	. - .	6	17.2	8.0-33.2
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland	77	55	72.7	60.1-82.4	10	14.0	6.9-26.5	3	3.3	0.9-11.1	1	2.0	0.3-12.6	8	8.1	3.8-16.5
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson	54	41	75.5	60.7-86.0	6	13.6	5.9-28.2	2	2.7	0.6-10.7	0	0.0	. - .	5	8.2	3.2-19.4
Northeast NC I	69	52	68.2	53.6-79.9	5	10.8	4.2-24.8	4	8.7	2.9-22.9	1	2.0	0.3-13.1	7	10.3	4.5-22.0
Northeast NC II	64	53	82.8	69.8-90.9	5	9.6	3.8-22.1	1	1.0	0.1- 6.9	0	0.0	. - .	5	6.6	2.4-17.1
Northeastern Partnership	133	105	77.2	67.7-84.6	10	10.0	5.2-18.5	5	3.9	1.5-10.1	1	0.8	0.1- 5.4	12	8.0	4.1-15.0
Mountain AHEC	133	94	73.7	63.5-81.8	20	12.0	6.9-20.0	3	3.6	1.0-12.6	0	0.0	. - .	16	10.7	6.1-18.3
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	412	315	74.1	67.4-79.8	40	12.2	8.1-17.9	14	2.7	1.4- 5.0	6	1.0	0.4- 2.7	37	10.0	6.4-15.3
Piedmont	323	227	70.8	63.6-77.0	55	15.0	10.8-20.4	4	1.7	0.6- 4.8	5	1.2	0.4- 3.6	32	11.3	7.1-17.7
Western NC	199	147	73.4	64.0-81.0	25	11.5	6.6-19.3	6	5.1	2.0-12.4	1	0.3	0.0- 2.0	20	9.8	5.6-16.7

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

934

689

72.3

67.9-76.3

120

13.5

10.7-16.9

2.5

1.5- 4.2

1.0

0.5- 2.1

10.7

7.9-14.3

GENDER

Male

361

254

71.3

64.2-77.4

12.9

9.1-18.1

2.7

1.3- 5.5

1.2

0.4- 3.5

11.9

7.5-18.2

Female

573

435

73.3

67.6-78.3

14.1

10.3-18.9

2.4

1.2- 4.8

0.8

0.3- 2.2

9.5

6.5-13.8

RACE

White

587

426

72.7

67.3-77.6

13.8

10.4-18.2

2.3

1.2- 4.5

1.1

0.5- 2.8

10.0

7.0-14.1

African American

290

226

73.1

64.0-80.6

12.6

8.0-19.1

2.4

1.0- 5.8

0.9

0.2- 3.3

11.1

5.6-20.8

Asian

78.4

23.5-97.7

0.0

. - .

21.6

2.3-76.5

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

Native American

69.8

40.9-88.5

8.6

2.0-30.5

1.0

0.1- 7.5

0.0

. - .

20.6

5.8-52.2

Other Minorities

56.3

28.4-80.7

18.6

5.8-46.0

7.3

1.0-38.2

0.0

. - .

17.8

4.8-48.1

HISPANIC

Hispanic

36.5

13.3-68.2

19.8

3.0-66.4

18.2

2.7-64.1

0.0

. - .

25.6

8.2-57.0

-English Speaking

69.2

23.9-94.1

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

30.8

5.9-76.1

-Spanish Speaking

19.9

3.4-63.5

29.8

4.5-79.3

27.3

4.0-77.4

0.0

. - .

23.0

4.8-63.9

Non-Hispanic

923

684

72.6

68.1-76.6

119

13.5

10.7-16.9

2.4

1.4- 4.0

1.0

0.5- 2.2

10.5

7.7-14.2

AGE

18-24

29.3

7.2-69.0

24.4

5.2-65.5

13.9

1.9-57.7

21.7

3.2-70.0

10.7

1.4-50.1

25-34

63.4

38.8-82.6

19.6

7.4-42.7

2.4

0.3-16.0

8.1

1.8-30.4

6.4

1.8-20.3

35-44

72.8

59.4-83.0

19.5

11.2-31.8

2.3

0.4-12.2

2.8

0.6-13.2

2.5

1.0- 6.5

45-54

159

120

77.0

65.7-85.4

8.2

4.4-14.8

3.8

1.3-11.0

0.3

0.0- 2.3

10.7

4.7-22.4

55-64

240

189

73.9

64.7-81.4

12.8

7.9-20.0

2.2

0.8- 6.0

0.1

0.0- 1.0

10.9

5.8-19.6

65-74

232

171

69.9

60.2-78.1

16.1

9.7-25.5

2.9

1.2- 7.2

0.7

0.2- 1.9

10.4

5.9-17.7

75+

180

130

70.2

59.2-79.2

12.0

6.6-21.0

1.1

0.2- 4.8

0.1

0.0- 0.7

16.7

9.7-27.0

EDUCATION

Less Than H.S.

296

213

69.4

60.9-76.7

12.8

8.2-19.5

2.1

0.9- 4.8

0.6

0.2- 1.7

15.1

9.6-23.1

H.S. or G.E.D.

285

210

76.2

68.8-82.3

13.8

9.3-20.1

2.0

0.7- 5.1

0.8

0.2- 2.8

7.2

4.1-12.2

Some Post-H.S.

199

151

71.4

61.4-79.7

11.7

6.8-19.6

3.9

1.5-10.0

2.3

0.7- 7.6

10.7

5.5-19.7

College Graduate

151

112

71.1

59.3-80.5

16.6

9.8-26.7

2.4

0.8- 7.3

0.3

0.0- 2.3

9.6

4.0-21.4

HOUSEHOLD INCOME

Less than $15,000

227

179

69.6

58.7-78.7

10.1

5.2-18.7

3.8

1.4- 9.9

0.1

0.0- 0.7

16.3

9.2-27.2

$15,000- 24,999

171

133

80.1

71.3-86.7

12.7

7.6-20.5

2.2

0.7- 6.6

0.4

0.1- 1.6

4.5

1.9-10.5

$25,000- 34,999

74.3

59.8-84.9

12.1

6.3-22.0

0.2

0.0- 1.6

0.6

0.1- 4.2

12.8

5.0-28.9

$35,000- 49,999

69.7

54.6-81.5

19.7

10.3-34.4

7.2

2.4-19.9

0.6

0.1- 4.3

2.8

1.0- 7.2

$50,000-74,999

70.4

52.3-83.8

11.7

5.5-23.2

1.8

0.2-11.8

0.9

0.1- 6.1

15.2

5.3-36.5

$75,000+

71.3

52.5-84.9

11.9

4.6-27.6

1.8

0.2-12.2

6.9

1.8-23.0

8.1

2.7-21.7

COUNTY/REGION**

Buncombe

62.1

44.5-77.0

21.6

10.7-38.7

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

16.3

6.8-34.1

Guilford

65.1

46.3-80.2

27.3

14.0-46.6

0.0

. - .

1.2

0.2- 8.2

6.3

1.7-20.6

Mecklenburg

67.8

47.9-82.8

21.3

9.0-42.4

3.9

0.5-23.1

3.1

0.4-19.0

4.0

1.0-14.8

Orange

49.3

27.7-71.1

21.8

8.6-45.1

10.8

1.6-47.5

0.0

. - .

18.2

5.8-44.4

Wake

50.4

30.6-70.0

27.8

14.1-47.5

5.4

0.8-29.9

5.0

0.7-28.0

11.5

2.4-40.7

Chatham/Lee

80.7

60.8-91.8

3.6

0.9-13.6

0.0

. - .

1.8

0.2-11.8

14.0

4.6-35.5

Nash/Wilson

71.1

52.4-84.6

8.1

2.6-22.9

11.1

2.8-34.6

0.0

. - .

9.7

3.9-22.3

Craven/Pamlico

87.9

75.5-94.5

6.6

2.0-19.1

0.8

0.1- 5.2

4.8

1.5-14.3

0.0

. - .

Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

76.1

53.7-89.8

18.5

6.3-43.3

0.0

. - .

2.1

0.3-13.8

3.2

0.7-13.8

Appalachian/Wilkes

81.4

63.1-91.8

6.1

1.5-22.5

1.6

0.2-10.8

3.1

0.4-19.1

7.7

1.9-26.4

Franklin/Gran./Vance

83.4

66.8-92.6

13.1

5.0-29.8

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

3.5

0.8-13.5

Graham/Swain/Jackson

63.3

46.7-77.3

17.6

8.0-34.6

1.8

0.3-11.9

0.0

. - .

17.2

8.0-33.2

Hoke/Robeson/Scotland

72.7

60.1-82.4

14.0

6.9-26.5

3.3

0.9-11.1

2.0

0.3-12.6

8.1

3.8-16.5

Bladen/Columbus/Sampson

75.5

60.7-86.0

13.6

5.9-28.2

2.7

0.6-10.7

0.0

. - .

8.2

3.2-19.4

Northeast NC I

68.2

53.6-79.9

10.8

4.2-24.8

8.7

2.9-22.9

2.0

0.3-13.1

10.3

4.5-22.0

Northeast NC II

82.8

69.8-90.9

9.6

3.8-22.1

1.0

0.1- 6.9

0.0

. - .

6.6

2.4-17.1

Northeastern Partnership

133

105

77.2

67.7-84.6

10.0

5.2-18.5

3.9

1.5-10.1

0.8

0.1- 5.4

8.0

4.1-15.0

Mountain AHEC

133

73.7

63.5-81.8

12.0

6.9-20.0

3.6

1.0-12.6

0.0

. - .

10.7

6.1-18.3

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

412

315

74.1

67.4-79.8

12.2

8.1-17.9

2.7

1.4- 5.0

1.0

0.4- 2.7

10.0

6.4-15.3

Piedmont

323

227

70.8

63.6-77.0

15.0

10.8-20.4

1.7

0.6- 4.8

1.2

0.4- 3.6

11.3

7.1-17.7

Western NC

199

147

73.4

64.0-81.0

11.5

6.6-19.3

5.1

2.0-12.4

0.3

0.0- 2.0

9.8

5.6-16.7

Back to Diabetes.

Respondents who reported having no feet excluded for this table.

^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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