SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Piedmont North Carolina**

Diabetes Control

Has a doctor ever told you that diabetes has affected your kidneys?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,608 200 14.0 11.2-17.3 1,408 86.0 82.7-88.8
-Piedmont NC 743 101 15.9 12.3-20.3 642 84.1 79.7-87.7
GENDER
Male 296 51 19.0 13.4-26.4 245 81.0 73.6-86.6
Female 447 50 13.2 8.9-18.9 397 86.8 81.1-91.1
RACE
White 545 75 16.0 11.7-21.5 470 84.0 78.5-88.3
African American 166 21 14.8 8.6-24.2 145 85.2 75.8-91.4
Other Minorities 27 4 17.4 5.3-44.2 23 82.6 55.8-94.7
HISPANIC
Hispanic 16 3 18.4 4.5-52.1 13 81.6 47.9-95.5
Non-Hispanic 726 98 15.8 12.1-20.3 628 84.2 79.7-87.9
AGE
18-44 56 5 9.5 3.5-23.6 51 90.5 76.4-96.5
45-54 104 12 15.5 8.2-27.2 92 84.5 72.8-91.8
55-64 210 35 19.6 12.4-29.5 175 80.4 70.5-87.6
65+ 370 49 15.4 10.7-21.8 321 84.6 78.2-89.3
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 171 28 14.8 8.7-24.2 143 85.2 75.8-91.3
H.S. or G.E.D. 241 30 17.8 10.9-27.7 211 82.2 72.3-89.1
Some Post-H.S. 176 27 18.4 12.0-27.3 149 81.6 72.7-88.0
College Graduate 152 15 10.9 5.6-20.0 137 89.1 80.0-94.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 112 15 14.1 7.4-25.3 97 85.9 74.7-92.6
$15,000- 24,999 150 22 16.0 8.4-28.6 128 84.0 71.4-91.6
$25,000- 34,999 88 11 11.3 5.5-21.8 77 88.7 78.2-94.5
$35,000- 49,999 95 12 11.1 5.8-20.2 83 88.9 79.8-94.2
$50,000-74,999 77 10 17.2 8.9-30.6 67 82.8 69.4-91.1
$75,000+ 86 7 15.3 6.7-31.2 79 84.7 68.8-93.3
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 438 78 20.3 15.0-26.8 360 79.7 73.2-85.0
No 290 22 10.2 6.1-16.6 268 89.8 83.4-93.9
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 115 23 24.0 14.0-38.0 92 76.0 62.0-86.0
Non-Veteran 556 71 13.8 10.1-18.6 485 86.2 81.4-89.9

Back to Diabetes Control.

*Asked of all respondents with doctor-diagnosed diabetes

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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.

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 17JUN10.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook