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| Total Respond.^ |
Yes | No | Told borderline or pre-hypertensive | |||||||
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| N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
| North Carolina | 4,362 | 3,494 | 79.4 | 77.4-81.3 | 835 | 19.5 | 17.6-21.4 | 33 | 1.1 | 0.7- 1.8 |
| -MALES | 1,621 | 1,287 | 79.3 | 76.0-82.2 | 312 | 19.0 | 16.1-22.2 | 22 | 1.8 | 1.0- 3.1 |
| RACE | ||||||||||
| White | 1,298 | 1,039 | 79.7 | 75.9-83.0 | 242 | 18.8 | 15.6-22.4 | 17 | 1.6 | 0.8- 3.1 |
| African American | 239 | 184 | 78.3 | 69.8-84.9 | 52 | 20.8 | 14.3-29.3 | *** | *** | *** |
| Other Minorities | 71 | *** | *** | *** | 14 | 11.7 | 5.6-22.8 | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | ||||||||||
| 18-34 | 51 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| 35-44 | 120 | 84 | 76.9 | 66.6-84.8 | 30 | 17.2 | 10.7-26.6 | *** | *** | *** |
| 45-54 | 274 | 224 | 83.7 | 76.9-88.8 | 46 | 14.0 | 9.5-20.3 | *** | *** | *** |
| 55-64 | 439 | 350 | 81.1 | 75.7-85.6 | 82 | 17.8 | 13.5-23.2 | *** | *** | *** |
| 65-74 | 454 | 372 | 82.6 | 77.2-87.0 | 79 | 16.6 | 12.3-21.9 | *** | *** | *** |
| 75+ | 273 | 214 | 73.4 | 62.3-82.2 | 57 | 25.8 | 17.1-37.0 | *** | *** | *** |
| EDUCATION | ||||||||||
| Less Than H.S. | 226 | 178 | 80.5 | 71.3-87.3 | 47 | 18.1 | 11.6-27.1 | *** | *** | *** |
| H.S. or G.E.D. | 483 | 384 | 82.5 | 77.2-86.7 | 91 | 16.5 | 12.3-21.7 | *** | *** | *** |
| Some Post-H.S. | 394 | 306 | 77.1 | 69.8-83.0 | 79 | 19.6 | 14.0-26.7 | *** | *** | *** |
| College Graduate | 513 | 415 | 77.1 | 71.1-82.1 | 94 | 22.2 | 17.2-28.1 | *** | *** | *** |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | ||||||||||
| Less than $15,000 | 159 | 128 | 80.1 | 69.8-87.6 | 29 | 18.2 | 11.1-28.5 | *** | *** | *** |
| $15,000- 24,999 | 269 | 209 | 72.6 | 61.7-81.3 | 57 | 26.7 | 18.0-37.6 | *** | *** | *** |
| $25,000- 34,999 | 174 | 144 | 80.7 | 70.2-88.2 | 27 | 15.7 | 9.4-25.1 | *** | *** | *** |
| $35,000- 49,999 | 246 | 196 | 79.6 | 70.2-86.5 | 45 | 18.6 | 11.9-27.8 | *** | *** | *** |
| $50,000- 74,999 | 221 | 175 | 83.4 | 76.0-88.9 | 42 | 13.6 | 9.0-20.1 | *** | *** | *** |
| $75,000+ | 336 | 261 | 77.9 | 71.0-83.5 | 71 | 20.2 | 14.9-26.7 | *** | *** | *** |
| DISABILITY STATUS | ||||||||||
| Yes | 629 | 542 | 87.7 | 83.9-90.8 | 78 | 10.6 | 7.8-14.2 | *** | *** | *** |
| No | 986 | 741 | 74.6 | 70.0-78.7 | 232 | 23.6 | 19.6-28.1 | 13 | 1.8 | 0.9- 3.9 |
| VETERAN STATUS | ||||||||||
| Veteran | 668 | 531 | 79.2 | 74.5-83.3 | 126 | 18.5 | 14.8-22.9 | 11 | 2.2 | 0.9- 5.5 |
| Non-Veteran | 952 | 755 | 79.3 | 74.9-83.1 | 186 | 19.2 | 15.5-23.4 | 11 | 1.6 | 0.8- 3.2 |
Back to Actions to Control High Blood Pressure*.
*Asked only of those who report having high blood pressure.
Pregnant females (N=4) told two or more times excluded from analysis.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2011 are NOT comparable to previous years.
***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2011 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.
^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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