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2010 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Diabetes

Has a doctor ever told you that diabetes has affected your eyes or that you had retinopathy?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,684 307 19.8 17.2-22.7 1,377 80.2 77.3-82.8
GENDER
Male 638 145 24.8 20.3-29.9 493 75.2 70.1-79.7
Female 1,046 162 15.3 12.6-18.6 884 84.7 81.4-87.4
RACE
White 1,182 197 17.7 14.8-21.0 985 82.3 79.0-85.2
African American 396 84 23.5 18.0-30.1 312 76.5 69.9-82.0
Asian 6 1 23.9 2.7-78.0 5 76.1 22.0-97.3
Native American 59 17 36.2 19.2-57.5 42 63.8 42.5-80.8
Other Minorities 27 6 19.6 7.4-42.7 21 80.4 57.3-92.6
HISPANIC
Hispanic 42 8 20.9 9.0-41.5 34 79.1 58.5-91.0
-English Speaking 30 6 28.7 11.8-54.8 24 71.3 45.2-88.2
-Spanish Speaking 12 2 13.6 2.8-46.4 10 86.4 53.6-97.2
Non-Hispanic 1,633 297 19.6 16.9-22.5 1,336 80.4 77.5-83.1
AGE
18-24 1 0 0.0 . - . 1 100 . - .
25-34 34 3 5.4 1.2-21.4 31 94.6 78.6-98.8
35-44 75 14 14.7 8.0-25.6 61 85.3 74.4-92.0
45-54 225 50 21.5 15.3-29.2 175 78.5 70.8-84.7
55-64 499 103 25.5 20.2-31.7 396 74.5 68.3-79.8
65-74 497 85 19.6 14.8-25.4 412 80.4 74.6-85.2
75+ 343 49 15.0 10.3-21.3 294 85.0 78.7-89.7
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 383 83 24.4 18.6-31.3 300 75.6 68.7-81.4
H.S. or G.E.D. 554 107 21.0 16.6-26.3 447 79.0 73.7-83.4
Some Post-H.S. 402 56 14.4 10.1-20.1 346 85.6 79.9-89.9
College Graduate 342 60 19.2 13.7-26.2 282 80.8 73.8-86.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 310 74 23.6 17.7-30.7 236 76.4 69.3-82.3
$15,000- 24,999 358 78 23.6 17.6-30.8 280 76.4 69.2-82.4
$25,000- 34,999 194 28 15.4 9.3-24.4 166 84.6 75.6-90.7
$35,000- 49,999 214 25 14.0 8.4-22.5 189 86.0 77.5-91.6
$50,000-74,999 162 29 19.8 12.2-30.3 133 80.2 69.7-87.8
$75,000+ 178 30 17.7 11.4-26.4 148 82.3 73.6-88.6
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,036 218 23.7 20.0-27.8 818 76.3 72.2-80.0
No 596 81 14.4 11.0-18.7 515 85.6 81.3-89.0
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 283 62 25.1 18.5-33.1 221 74.9 66.9-81.5
Non-Veteran 1,401 245 18.7 15.9-21.8 1,156 81.3 78.2-84.1

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This question was asked of those who had been told they had diabetes by a doctor.

^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.

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