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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 9 & 10 | 933 | 436 | 39.5 | 35.5-43.7 | 4 | 0.6 | 0.2- 1.8 | 479 | 58.8 | 54.6-62.9 | 14 | 1.1 | 0.5- 2.1 |
GENDER | |||||||||||||
Male | 392 | 170 | 34.5 | 29.0-40.4 | *** | *** | *** | 216 | 64.2 | 58.2-69.8 | *** | *** | *** |
Female | 541 | 266 | 44.2 | 38.5-50.0 | *** | *** | *** | 263 | 53.8 | 48.0-59.6 | *** | *** | *** |
RACE | |||||||||||||
Non-Hispanic White | 604 | 256 | 35.2 | 30.4-40.3 | *** | *** | *** | 335 | 63.0 | 57.8-67.9 | *** | *** | *** |
Non-Hispanic Black | 256 | 152 | 50.8 | 42.5-59.0 | *** | *** | *** | 100 | 48.5 | 40.2-56.8 | *** | *** | *** |
Other | 63 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
AGE | |||||||||||||
18-44 | 238 | 42 | 16.2 | 11.1-23.0 | *** | *** | *** | 191 | 81.9 | 74.9-87.3 | *** | *** | *** |
44-64 | 383 | 196 | 54.4 | 48.4-60.2 | *** | *** | *** | 181 | 44.5 | 38.7-50.4 | *** | *** | *** |
65+ | 304 | 193 | 63.2 | 56.4-69.6 | *** | *** | *** | 104 | 34.8 | 28.5-41.6 | *** | *** | *** |
EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
H.S. or Less | 401 | 214 | 44.1 | 37.7-50.7 | *** | *** | *** | 183 | 55.0 | 48.3-61.5 | *** | *** | *** |
Some College + | 528 | 219 | 35.1 | 30.2-40.3 | *** | *** | *** | 295 | 62.5 | 57.2-67.6 | *** | *** | *** |
HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
Less than $50,000 | 445 | 230 | 42.7 | 36.7-49.0 | *** | *** | *** | 209 | 56.6 | 50.3-62.6 | *** | *** | *** |
$50,000+ | 290 | 100 | 31.2 | 24.6-38.6 | *** | *** | *** | 181 | 65.7 | 58.1-72.5 | *** | *** | *** |
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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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