SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Durham County

Diabetes Screening

How long has it been since you had your last blood test for high sugar or diabetes?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
In the past three years More than 3 years to 5 years More than 5 years
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 9,369 8,255 87.9 86.9-88.7 484 5.6 4.9- 6.3 630 6.6 5.9- 7.3
-Durham County 254 220 86.2 80.0-90.7 15 6.3 3.4-11.3 19 7.5 4.4-12.6
GENDER
Male 73 67 89.5 76.5-95.7 2 3.5 0.7-14.9 4 7.0 2.2-19.8
Female 181 153 84.0 76.5-89.5 13 8.1 4.2-15.0 15 7.9 4.5-13.4
RACE
White 144 120 81.6 72.3-88.3 9 8.2 3.7-17.2 15 10.2 5.8-17.4
Other 108 98 90.9 81.6-95.7 6 4.3 1.8-10.2 4 4.8 1.4-15.0
AGE
18-44 121 100 82.2 72.3-89.0 12 9.6 4.9-17.9 9 8.3 3.8-16.9
45+ 133 120 91.7 85.5-95.4 3 1.8 0.5- 5.8 10 6.5 3.3-12.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 74 62 85.5 72.9-92.8 4 4.7 1.6-13.0 8 9.9 4.0-22.3
Some College + 180 158 86.6 79.0-91.7 11 7.1 3.4-14.2 11 6.3 3.2-12.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 120 106 85.8 74.9-92.4 8 8.3 3.6-18.1 6 5.9 2.1-15.5
$50,000+ 100 87 86.8 77.6-92.6 3 2.7 0.9- 8.1 10 10.5 5.3-19.5

Back to Diabetes Screening.

*This question was asked only of respondents with NO diabetes who ever had a blood sugar test

^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: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): 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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16AUG06.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook