SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC**

Diabetes

About how many times in the past 12 months have you seen a doctor, nurse, or other health professional for your diabetes?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
1-5 times 6-11 times 12+ times Never
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,794 1,356 76.0 73.4-78.4 139 7.5 6.1- 9.1 151 8.2 6.7- 9.9 148 8.4 6.8-10.2
-Mountain AHEC 104 79 80.6 70.6-87.9 9 4.5 2.1- 9.3 6 6.0 2.4-14.5 10 8.8 4.2-17.4
GENDER
Male 42 33 81.6 65.1-91.3 3 1.5 0.4- 5.8 2 6.3 1.5-22.4 4 10.7 4.0-25.6
Female 62 46 79.5 66.7-88.3 6 8.1 3.4-18.0 4 5.8 1.9-16.2 6 6.6 2.4-17.0
RACE
White 86 66 81.2 70.1-88.9 8 4.6 2.0-10.0 3 4.8 1.4-15.0 9 9.3 4.3-19.1
African American 11 7 71.7 32.8-93.0 1 5.4 0.6-34.1 2 14.7 2.4-54.2 1 8.2 1.0-44.7
Other Minorities 7 6 90.2 47.7-98.9 0 0.0 . - . 1 9.8 1.1-52.3 0 0.0 . - .
HISPANIC
Hispanic 3 2 91.2 48.5-99.1 0 0.0 . - . 1 8.8 0.9-51.5 0 0.0 . - .
Non-Hispanic 101 77 80.1 69.7-87.6 9 4.7 2.2- 9.8 5 5.9 2.2-14.9 10 9.3 4.5-18.2
AGE
18-24 2 1 13.8 1.0-72.0 1 86.2 28.0-99.0 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - .
25-34 5 5 100 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - .
35-44 7 4 77.4 39.7-94.7 0 0.0 . - . 2 10.5 2.1-39.6 1 12.0 1.5-55.0
45-54 16 13 85.1 58.6-95.8 1 2.7 0.3-17.7 2 12.3 2.9-39.8 0 0.0 . - .
55-64 22 16 68.0 40.2-87.0 3 5.0 1.2-18.3 0 0.0 . - . 3 27.0 9.4-56.8
65-74 28 22 84.8 63.6-94.7 2 3.4 0.8-13.2 0 0.0 . - . 4 11.8 3.3-34.8
75+ 24 18 79.7 56.8-92.2 2 5.5 1.3-20.1 2 10.4 2.3-36.8 2 4.5 0.7-23.3
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 26 21 84.0 55.6-95.6 2 4.4 1.0-17.5 1 10.1 1.4-46.3 2 1.5 0.3- 7.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 28 18 68.6 45.9-85.0 2 5.9 1.3-22.6 3 7.5 1.9-25.2 5 17.9 6.4-40.8
Some Post-H.S. 28 23 88.5 71.6-95.9 2 2.2 0.4-11.8 2 5.5 1.3-21.1 1 3.8 0.5-22.9
College Graduate 21 17 78.4 51.2-92.6 2 5.8 1.1-24.7 0 0.0 . - . 2 15.8 4.0-45.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 21 14 82.2 60.0-93.4 4 10.2 3.2-28.0 0 0.0 . - . 3 7.6 1.4-31.9
$15,000- 24,999 28 22 84.4 64.5-94.1 2 3.3 0.6-15.0 3 7.3 1.8-25.2 1 5.1 0.7-28.6
$25,000- 34,999 7 4 45.0 14.3-80.1 1 9.0 1.1-45.8 0 0.0 . - . 2 46.0 13.7-82.0
$35,000- 49,999 15 13 90.2 65.9-97.8 2 9.8 2.2-34.1 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - .
$50,000-74,999 7 7 100 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - .
$75,000+ 7 6 79.4 30.0-97.2 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 1 20.6 2.8-70.0
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 62 47 77.3 63.2-87.2 7 6.5 2.8-14.5 3 7.8 2.5-22.1 5 8.4 3.2-20.5
No 35 28 88.2 73.3-95.3 2 1.9 0.5- 7.7 3 4.1 1.2-13.5 2 5.8 1.3-22.3
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 19 14 72.1 46.1-88.6 1 2.1 0.3-13.8 2 13.8 3.4-42.0 2 12.1 3.0-37.8
Non-Veteran 84 65 83.6 73.2-90.4 8 5.3 2.3-11.5 4 3.5 1.1-10.2 7 7.7 3.2-17.2

Back to Diabetes.

^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