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Total Respond.^ |
Yes | No | |||||
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N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
North Carolina | 2,722 | 2,277 | 81.0 | 79.1-82.9 | 445 | 19.0 | 17.1-20.9 |
Region 5 | 286 | 224 | 77.6 | 71.4-82.8 | 62 | 22.4 | 17.2-28.6 |
GENDER | |||||||
Male | 113 | 84 | 72.7 | 62.1-81.2 | 29 | 27.3 | 18.8-37.9 |
Female | 173 | 140 | 82.3 | 75.1-87.7 | 33 | 17.7 | 12.3-24.9 |
RACE | |||||||
Non-Hispanic White | 184 | 145 | 78.9 | 71.5-84.8 | 39 | 21.1 | 15.2-28.5 |
Non-Hispanic Black | 78 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
Other | 21 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
AGE | |||||||
18-44 | 42 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
44-64 | 113 | 86 | 75.5 | 65.1-83.6 | 27 | 24.5 | 16.4-34.9 |
65+ | 124 | 113 | 92.8 | 85.2-96.7 | 11 | 7.2 | 3.3-14.8 |
EDUCATION | |||||||
H.S. or Less | 116 | 94 | 79.0 | 68.5-86.7 | 22 | 21.0 | 13.3-31.5 |
Some College + | 168 | 128 | 76.1 | 68.3-82.6 | 40 | 23.9 | 17.4-31.7 |
HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||
Less than $50,000 | 144 | 112 | 77.2 | 68.0-84.4 | 32 | 22.8 | 15.6-32.0 |
$50,000+ | 76 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
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*Asked only of those who report being told they have high blood pressure.
See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.
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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