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| Total Respond.^ |
Past 12 months | 1-2 years | 2-5 years | 5+ years | |||||||||
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| N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
| North Carolina | 5,669 | 4,598 | 78.9 | 77.6-80.2 | 578 | 11.4 | 10.4-12.4 | 352 | 7.0 | 6.2- 7.8 | 141 | 2.7 | 2.3- 3.3 |
| Region 6 | 427 | 358 | 81.9 | 77.2-85.7 | 39 | 10.2 | 7.3-14.1 | 21 | 6.1 | 3.8- 9.5 | 9 | 1.8 | 0.9- 3.6 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 181 | 148 | 80.6 | 73.0-86.4 | 16 | 8.9 | 5.3-14.7 | 12 | 8.3 | 4.4-14.9 | *** | *** | *** |
| Female | 246 | 210 | 83.0 | 76.8-87.8 | 23 | 11.4 | 7.3-17.2 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 245 | 203 | 80.1 | 73.7-85.3 | 24 | 11.8 | 7.8-17.5 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 126 | 113 | 88.5 | 79.8-93.7 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 51 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 133 | 95 | 73.3 | 64.5-80.6 | 19 | 14.4 | 9.1-22.0 | 14 | 9.3 | 5.3-16.0 | *** | *** | *** |
| 44-64 | 170 | 144 | 81.6 | 73.4-87.7 | 17 | 11.5 | 7.0-18.5 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| 65+ | 119 | 114 | 96.7 | 91.2-98.8 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 165 | 135 | 80.6 | 72.7-86.6 | 17 | 10.8 | 6.5-17.6 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Some College + | 262 | 223 | 82.8 | 76.8-87.6 | 22 | 9.8 | 6.3-14.9 | 13 | 6.4 | 3.6-11.1 | *** | *** | *** |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 186 | 156 | 81.1 | 73.4-87.0 | 17 | 10.5 | 6.3-17.0 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| $50,000+ | 147 | 118 | 79.7 | 71.5-86.1 | 17 | 11.7 | 7.0-18.8 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
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*Asked of those who have ever had their blood cholesterol checked.
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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