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Total Respond.^ |
No chronic disease | 1 chronic disease | 2+ chronic diseases | |||||||
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N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
North Carolina | 6,698 | 2,863 | 49.0 | 47.6-50.5 | 1,778 | 24.8 | 23.6-26.0 | 2,057 | 26.2 | 25.0-27.4 |
Region 9 & 10 | 936 | 342 | 43.6 | 39.2-48.0 | 255 | 25.4 | 21.8-29.5 | 339 | 31.0 | 27.4-34.8 |
GENDER | ||||||||||
Male | 393 | 161 | 50.6 | 44.1-57.0 | 108 | 22.5 | 17.9-27.9 | 124 | 26.9 | 21.9-32.6 |
Female | 543 | 181 | 37.0 | 31.4-43.0 | 147 | 28.2 | 22.8-34.3 | 215 | 34.8 | 29.8-40.2 |
RACE | ||||||||||
Non-Hispanic White | 605 | 203 | 41.0 | 35.6-46.6 | 172 | 26.7 | 22.0-32.0 | 230 | 32.3 | 27.7-37.2 |
Non-Hispanic Black | 257 | 99 | 42.0 | 34.0-50.5 | 68 | 25.8 | 19.2-33.8 | 90 | 32.1 | 25.4-39.6 |
Other | 63 | *** | *** | *** | 13 | 15.5 | 8.1-27.6 | *** | *** | *** |
AGE | ||||||||||
18-44 | 238 | 153 | 66.3 | 58.0-73.7 | 55 | 22.3 | 15.9-30.4 | 30 | 11.4 | 7.4-17.3 |
44-64 | 383 | 135 | 32.4 | 27.2-38.1 | 117 | 29.5 | 24.5-35.1 | 131 | 38.0 | 32.3-44.1 |
65+ | 305 | 50 | 15.0 | 11.0-20.2 | 81 | 25.7 | 20.3-31.9 | 174 | 59.3 | 52.5-65.7 |
EDUCATION | ||||||||||
H.S. or Less | 403 | 136 | 42.7 | 36.1-49.6 | 97 | 23.8 | 18.2-30.5 | 170 | 33.5 | 28.0-39.6 |
Some College + | 528 | 204 | 44.4 | 38.8-50.3 | 156 | 26.8 | 22.2-31.9 | 168 | 28.8 | 24.2-33.8 |
HOUSEHOLD INCOME | ||||||||||
Less than $50,000 | 445 | 142 | 41.3 | 35.0-48.0 | 119 | 24.4 | 19.0-30.6 | 184 | 34.3 | 28.9-40.2 |
$50,000+ | 290 | 129 | 49.7 | 42.2-57.3 | 93 | 29.0 | 22.9-36.0 | 68 | 21.3 | 16.1-27.5 |
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*The index consists of heart disease (heart attack/stoke/angina), current asthma, skin cancer,
other cancer, COPD, arthritis, depression, kidney disease and diabetes.
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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