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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

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
North Carolina	1,513	1,210	78.3	75.5-80.9	125	8.9	7.1-11.1	32	2.0	1.3- 3.1	18	1.2	0.7- 2.2	128	9.5	7.8-11.6
COUNTY/REGIONS***
Alamance	40	35	90.6	76.9-96.5	2	4.2	0.9-17.6	2	4.1	0.9-17.2	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.1	0.2- 7.7
Buncombe	39	27	72.5	54.7-85.2	5	11.2	4.0-27.5	1	5.1	0.7-28.4	1	3.3	0.5-20.1	5	7.9	3.0-19.1
Cabarrus	38	30	80.2	63.7-90.3	3	7.3	2.2-21.7	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.9	0.3-12.2	4	10.7	3.9-26.1
Catawba	37	26	73.6	54.8-86.5	4	11.8	3.8-30.7	1	1.3	0.2- 9.1	1	1.3	0.2- 9.1	5	12.0	4.3-29.0
Cumberland	55	48	85.9	72.9-93.2	2	4.0	1.0-14.7	1	2.3	0.3-14.8	0	0.0	. - .	4	7.8	2.9-19.4
Davidson	35	33	93.5	77.3-98.4	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	2	6.5	1.6-22.7
Durham	26	25	98.1	87.5-99.7	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.9	0.3-12.5	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .
Forsyth	32	26	84.3	67.3-93.3	4	11.7	4.2-28.8	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	2	4.0	1.0-15.4
Gaston	47	39	82.8	67.8-91.7	6	13.7	5.9-28.7	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	2	3.5	0.8-13.4
Guilford	40	27	68.0	50.2-81.8	2	5.4	1.3-20.2	4	9.5	2.9-27.1	0	0.0	. - .	7	17.1	7.8-33.5
Iredell	44	34	76.8	60.3-87.9	6	12.4	5.1-27.2	1	1.9	0.3-12.4	2	6.9	1.7-24.3	1	1.9	0.3-12.4
Johnston	52	48	93.8	83.0-97.9	1	0.8	0.1- 5.6	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.2	0.2- 8.3	2	4.2	1.0-16.0
Mecklenburg	45	33	69.9	50.0-84.3	3	12.6	3.0-40.0	1	2.9	0.4-18.2	1	2.9	0.4-18.2	7	11.7	5.2-24.3
New Hanover	32	24	77.3	58.3-89.2	1	3.9	0.5-23.1	2	3.3	0.8-12.8	0	0.0	. - .	5	15.5	6.1-34.3
Onslow	34	30	88.4	71.6-95.8	1	3.9	0.5-23.1	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.8	0.2-11.7	2	6.0	1.4-21.5
Orange	32	24	68.1	44.9-84.9	4	15.7	4.5-42.4	2	12.4	3.1-38.2	1	2.5	0.3-15.9	1	1.3	0.2- 9.0
Pitt	28	23	80.6	59.5-92.2	0	0.0	. - .	2	4.6	1.1-17.4	1	5.6	0.8-30.5	2	9.2	2.3-30.6
Randolph	30	27	91.0	74.5-97.2	3	9.0	2.8-25.5	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .
Robeson	51	38	76.4	61.8-86.6	5	10.5	4.3-23.2	1	1.2	0.2- 8.4	0	0.0	. - .	7	11.9	5.2-25.0
Rowan	44	36	81.6	62.9-92.1	5	8.6	3.4-20.3	1	7.1	1.0-35.7	0	0.0	. - .	2	2.7	0.6-10.6
Union	36	29	81.7	64.0-91.8	3	7.5	1.9-25.6	2	4.4	1.1-16.3	0	0.0	. - .	2	6.4	1.6-22.6
Wake	42	32	81.8	66.8-90.9	5	9.6	3.6-23.1	2	1.8	0.4- 7.8	0	0.0	. - .	3	6.8	2.0-20.8
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	32	24	72.5	52.5-86.3	4	13.9	5.0-33.1	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	4	13.6	4.8-33.0
Northeast Partnership II	76	58	75.7	62.8-85.2	8	11.3	5.2-22.7	1	0.6	0.1- 4.3	2	2.0	0.5- 8.4	7	10.4	4.4-22.4
Northeast Partnership I	55	46	79.6	63.4-89.8	4	6.5	2.2-17.4	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.8	0.3-11.9	4	12.1	4.3-29.3
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	50	38	69.8	52.3-83.0	7	14.2	6.3-28.9	1	2.7	0.4-16.7	0	0.0	. - .	4	13.4	4.6-33.0
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	60	43	59.4	43.4-73.7	7	17.3	7.4-35.3	0	0.0	. - .	1	2.8	0.4-17.2	9	20.5	10.3-36.7
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	45	37	85.3	70.8-93.3	3	3.7	1.1-11.2	2	3.8	0.9-14.5	0	0.0	. - .	3	7.2	1.9-23.4
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	53	45	87.2	75.6-93.8	4	6.8	2.5-17.3	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	4	6.0	2.1-15.8
Chatham/Lee/Moore	38	29	75.4	56.0-88.1	1	3.4	0.5-20.7	0	0.0	. - .	2	3.4	0.8-13.7	6	17.7	7.0-38.0
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	69	55	81.5	70.0-89.2	6	7.1	3.0-15.9	1	1.9	0.3-12.0	1	1.3	0.2- 8.5	6	8.3	3.6-17.9
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	34	29	84.3	66.1-93.7	2	6.7	1.5-24.8	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	3	9.1	2.8-25.6
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes	31	24	75.6	56.0-88.3	3	11.5	3.7-30.3	2	4.9	1.0-20.2	0	0.0	. - .	2	8.0	2.0-27.0
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	44	33	74.3	57.3-86.2	7	20.2	9.5-38.0	1	1.2	0.2- 8.2	0	0.0	. - .	3	4.3	1.3-13.0
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	67	55	78.9	63.0-89.1	4	4.9	1.4-16.1	0	0.0	. - .	1	2.9	0.4-17.8	7	13.3	5.5-28.8
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**
Yes	140	111	77.5	68.3-84.7	13	9.7	5.4-17.1	1	0.3	0.0- 2.4	3	1.8	0.6- 5.7	12	10.6	5.6-19.0
No	1,373	1,099	78.4	75.4-81.1	112	8.8	7.0-11.2	31	2.2	1.4- 3.4	15	1.2	0.6- 2.2	116	9.5	7.6-11.7
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	584	470	76.3	71.2-80.8	46	10.3	6.9-15.0	10	1.4	0.7- 2.8	7	1.1	0.4- 2.7	51	10.9	8.0-14.8
Piedmont	766	617	81.2	77.6-84.3	62	7.3	5.4- 9.7	19	2.6	1.4- 4.5	9	1.0	0.4- 2.3	59	8.0	5.9-10.6
Western NC	163	123	73.7	64.5-81.3	17	10.9	6.3-18.1	3	1.9	0.5- 6.4	2	2.0	0.5- 8.4	18	11.5	6.5-19.3
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****
Mountain AHEC	105	81	76.5	64.5-85.4	9	6.9	3.0-14.9	1	1.6	0.2-10.3	2	3.1	0.7-12.3	12	11.9	5.8-23.1
Northwest	262	207	77.9	71.1-83.4	29	12.8	8.3-19.1	5	1.8	0.7- 4.7	3	1.0	0.3- 3.3	18	6.6	3.9-10.9
Charlotte	211	168	81.1	74.2-86.5	18	6.9	4.1-11.5	3	1.5	0.3- 6.7	2	1.4	0.2- 7.1	20	9.1	5.6-14.5
Greensboro	167	137	79.8	70.6-86.7	12	6.3	3.1-12.2	8	5.9	2.5-13.7	1	0.2	0.0- 1.7	9	7.7	3.6-15.6
Southern Regional	196	153	76.0	67.6-82.7	14	9.9	5.2-18.1	4	2.0	0.7- 5.8	2	0.8	0.2- 3.3	23	11.3	7.1-17.5
Coastal	70	55	79.7	66.3-88.7	4	4.1	1.4-11.2	3	2.9	0.8- 9.5	0	0.0	. - .	8	13.3	5.9-27.4
Wake	194	166	86.0	79.0-91.0	9	5.0	2.3-10.9	3	1.0	0.3- 3.4	2	0.4	0.1- 1.6	14	7.5	4.1-13.4
Area L	82	63	72.4	58.6-82.9	13	15.7	8.6-26.9	2	2.4	0.5-10.9	1	1.0	0.1- 6.7	3	8.5	2.5-25.0
Eastern	208	168	77.0	69.0-83.5	14	7.9	4.5-13.5	2	0.4	0.1- 1.6	5	2.7	0.9- 7.6	19	12.0	7.2-19.4

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%)

North Carolina

1,513

1,210

78.3

75.5-80.9

125

8.9

7.1-11.1

2.0

1.3- 3.1

1.2

0.7- 2.2

128

9.5

7.8-11.6

COUNTY/REGIONS***

Alamance

90.6

76.9-96.5

4.2

0.9-17.6

4.1

0.9-17.2

0.0

. - .

1.1

0.2- 7.7

Buncombe

72.5

54.7-85.2

11.2

4.0-27.5

5.1

0.7-28.4

3.3

0.5-20.1

7.9

3.0-19.1

Cabarrus

80.2

63.7-90.3

7.3

2.2-21.7

0.0

. - .

1.9

0.3-12.2

10.7

3.9-26.1

Catawba

73.6

54.8-86.5

11.8

3.8-30.7

1.3

0.2- 9.1

1.3

0.2- 9.1

12.0

4.3-29.0

Cumberland

85.9

72.9-93.2

4.0

1.0-14.7

2.3

0.3-14.8

0.0

. - .

7.8

2.9-19.4

Davidson

93.5

77.3-98.4

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

6.5

1.6-22.7

Durham

98.1

87.5-99.7

0.0

. - .

1.9

0.3-12.5

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

Forsyth

84.3

67.3-93.3

11.7

4.2-28.8

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

4.0

1.0-15.4

Gaston

82.8

67.8-91.7

13.7

5.9-28.7

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

3.5

0.8-13.4

Guilford

68.0

50.2-81.8

5.4

1.3-20.2

9.5

2.9-27.1

0.0

. - .

17.1

7.8-33.5

Iredell

76.8

60.3-87.9

12.4

5.1-27.2

1.9

0.3-12.4

6.9

1.7-24.3

1.9

0.3-12.4

Johnston

93.8

83.0-97.9

0.8

0.1- 5.6

0.0

. - .

1.2

0.2- 8.3

4.2

1.0-16.0

Mecklenburg

69.9

50.0-84.3

12.6

3.0-40.0

2.9

0.4-18.2

2.9

0.4-18.2

11.7

5.2-24.3

New Hanover

77.3

58.3-89.2

3.9

0.5-23.1

3.3

0.8-12.8

0.0

. - .

15.5

6.1-34.3

Onslow

88.4

71.6-95.8

3.9

0.5-23.1

0.0

. - .

1.8

0.2-11.7

6.0

1.4-21.5

Orange

68.1

44.9-84.9

15.7

4.5-42.4

12.4

3.1-38.2

2.5

0.3-15.9

1.3

0.2- 9.0

Pitt

80.6

59.5-92.2

0.0

. - .

4.6

1.1-17.4

5.6

0.8-30.5

9.2

2.3-30.6

Randolph

91.0

74.5-97.2

9.0

2.8-25.5

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

Robeson

76.4

61.8-86.6

10.5

4.3-23.2

1.2

0.2- 8.4

0.0

. - .

11.9

5.2-25.0

Rowan

81.6

62.9-92.1

8.6

3.4-20.3

7.1

1.0-35.7

0.0

. - .

2.7

0.6-10.6

Union

81.7

64.0-91.8

7.5

1.9-25.6

4.4

1.1-16.3

0.0

. - .

6.4

1.6-22.6

Wake

81.8

66.8-90.9

9.6

3.6-23.1

1.8

0.4- 7.8

0.0

. - .

6.8

2.0-20.8

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

72.5

52.5-86.3

13.9

5.0-33.1

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

13.6

4.8-33.0

Northeast Partnership II

75.7

62.8-85.2

11.3

5.2-22.7

0.6

0.1- 4.3

2.0

0.5- 8.4

10.4

4.4-22.4

Northeast Partnership I

79.6

63.4-89.8

6.5

2.2-17.4

0.0

. - .

1.8

0.3-11.9

12.1

4.3-29.3

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

69.8

52.3-83.0

14.2

6.3-28.9

2.7

0.4-16.7

0.0

. - .

13.4

4.6-33.0

Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne

59.4

43.4-73.7

17.3

7.4-35.3

0.0

. - .

2.8

0.4-17.2

20.5

10.3-36.7

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

85.3

70.8-93.3

3.7

1.1-11.2

3.8

0.9-14.5

0.0

. - .

7.2

1.9-23.4

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

87.2

75.6-93.8

6.8

2.5-17.3

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

6.0

2.1-15.8

Chatham/Lee/Moore

75.4

56.0-88.1

3.4

0.5-20.7

0.0

. - .

3.4

0.8-13.7

17.7

7.0-38.0

Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly

81.5

70.0-89.2

7.1

3.0-15.9

1.9

0.3-12.0

1.3

0.2- 8.5

8.3

3.6-17.9

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

84.3

66.1-93.7

6.7

1.5-24.8

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

9.1

2.8-25.6

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes

75.6

56.0-88.3

11.5

3.7-30.3

4.9

1.0-20.2

0.0

. - .

8.0

2.0-27.0

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

74.3

57.3-86.2

20.2

9.5-38.0

1.2

0.2- 8.2

0.0

. - .

4.3

1.3-13.0

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

78.9

63.0-89.1

4.9

1.4-16.1

0.0

. - .

2.9

0.4-17.8

13.3

5.5-28.8

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**

Yes

140

111

77.5

68.3-84.7

9.7

5.4-17.1

0.3

0.0- 2.4

1.8

0.6- 5.7

10.6

5.6-19.0

1,373

1,099

78.4

75.4-81.1

112

8.8

7.0-11.2

2.2

1.4- 3.4

1.2

0.6- 2.2

116

9.5

7.6-11.7

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

584

470

76.3

71.2-80.8

10.3

6.9-15.0

1.4

0.7- 2.8

1.1

0.4- 2.7

10.9

8.0-14.8

Piedmont

766

617

81.2

77.6-84.3

7.3

5.4- 9.7

2.6

1.4- 4.5

1.0

0.4- 2.3

8.0

5.9-10.6

Western NC

163

123

73.7

64.5-81.3

10.9

6.3-18.1

1.9

0.5- 6.4

2.0

0.5- 8.4

11.5

6.5-19.3

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****

Mountain AHEC

105

76.5

64.5-85.4

6.9

3.0-14.9

1.6

0.2-10.3

3.1

0.7-12.3

11.9

5.8-23.1

Northwest

262

207

77.9

71.1-83.4

12.8

8.3-19.1

1.8

0.7- 4.7

1.0

0.3- 3.3

6.6

3.9-10.9

Charlotte

211

168

81.1

74.2-86.5

6.9

4.1-11.5

1.5

0.3- 6.7

1.4

0.2- 7.1

9.1

5.6-14.5

Greensboro

167

137

79.8

70.6-86.7

6.3

3.1-12.2

5.9

2.5-13.7

0.2

0.0- 1.7

7.7

3.6-15.6

Southern Regional

196

153

76.0

67.6-82.7

9.9

5.2-18.1

2.0

0.7- 5.8

0.8

0.2- 3.3

11.3

7.1-17.5

Coastal

79.7

66.3-88.7

4.1

1.4-11.2

2.9

0.8- 9.5

0.0

. - .

13.3

5.9-27.4

Wake

194

166

86.0

79.0-91.0

5.0

2.3-10.9

1.0

0.3- 3.4

0.4

0.1- 1.6

7.5

4.1-13.4

Area L

72.4

58.6-82.9

15.7

8.6-26.9

2.4

0.5-10.9

1.0

0.1- 6.7

8.5

2.5-25.0

Eastern

208

168

77.0

69.0-83.5

7.9

4.5-13.5

0.4

0.1- 1.6

2.7

0.9- 7.6

12.0

7.2-19.4

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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, Edgecombe, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.

*** 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.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

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