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Total Respond.^ |
Yes | Yes, during pregnancy | No | Borderline high or pre-hypertensive | |||||||||
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N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
North Carolina | 6,683 | 2,725 | 35.2 | 33.8-36.5 | 30 | 0.6 | 0.4- 0.9 | 3,851 | 63.1 | 61.7-64.4 | 77 | 1.2 | 0.9- 1.6 |
Region 5 | 825 | 286 | 31.6 | 28.1-35.3 | 6 | 0.8 | 0.3- 1.9 | 523 | 65.9 | 62.1-69.5 | 10 | 1.7 | 0.7- 3.9 |
GENDER | |||||||||||||
Male | 354 | 113 | 32.3 | 26.9-38.2 | *** | *** | *** | 235 | 66.1 | 60.2-71.6 | *** | *** | *** |
Female | 471 | 173 | 31.0 | 26.6-35.8 | *** | *** | *** | 288 | 65.7 | 60.6-70.4 | *** | *** | *** |
RACE | |||||||||||||
Non-Hispanic White | 497 | 184 | 34.5 | 29.9-39.3 | *** | *** | *** | 303 | 63.4 | 58.5-68.1 | *** | *** | *** |
Non-Hispanic Black | 190 | 78 | 32.2 | 25.4-39.9 | *** | *** | *** | 108 | 65.9 | 58.1-72.9 | *** | *** | *** |
Other | 123 | 21 | 18.6 | 11.1-29.4 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
AGE | |||||||||||||
18-44 | 315 | 42 | 12.3 | 8.9-16.8 | *** | *** | *** | 265 | 84.0 | 78.7-88.2 | *** | *** | *** |
44-64 | 287 | 113 | 40.2 | 33.9-46.7 | *** | *** | *** | 171 | 59.0 | 52.5-65.3 | *** | *** | *** |
65+ | 210 | 124 | 62.1 | 54.4-69.2 | *** | *** | *** | 81 | 35.3 | 28.4-42.9 | *** | *** | *** |
EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
H.S. or Less | 292 | 116 | 36.9 | 30.7-43.6 | *** | *** | *** | 173 | 61.1 | 54.3-67.5 | *** | *** | *** |
Some College + | 528 | 168 | 27.9 | 23.9-32.2 | *** | *** | *** | 347 | 69.2 | 64.8-73.4 | *** | *** | *** |
HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
Less than $50,000 | 351 | 144 | 39.1 | 33.3-45.3 | *** | *** | *** | 200 | 57.8 | 51.5-63.9 | *** | *** | *** |
$50,000+ | 300 | 76 | 23.0 | 18.2-28.7 | *** | *** | *** | 218 | 74.6 | 68.7-79.7 | *** | *** | *** |
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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2015 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.
***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2015 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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