2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you have kidney disease?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,513 240 3.2 2.8- 3.8 6,273 96.8 96.2-97.2
Region 5 698 31 4.5 3.0- 6.9 667 95.5 93.1-97.0
GENDER
Male 340 *** *** *** 330 97.3 94.1-98.8
Female 358 21 6.2 3.7-10.1 337 93.8 89.9-96.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 437 20 4.5 2.7- 7.4 417 95.5 92.6-97.3
Non-Hispanic Black 160 *** *** *** 153 94.7 87.2-97.9
Other 98 *** *** *** 94 96.4 89.4-98.8
AGE
18-44 263 *** *** *** 256 97.7 94.9-99.0
45-64 230 *** *** *** 221 95.1 89.6-97.8
65+ 192 14 9.0 4.7-16.5 178 91.0 83.5-95.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 223 11 5.5 2.8-10.5 212 94.5 89.5-97.2
Some College + 475 20 4.0 2.3- 6.8 455 96.0 93.2-97.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 300 15 5.3 3.0- 9.4 285 94.7 90.6-97.0
$50,000+ 275 *** *** *** 267 98.3 96.2-99.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2016 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2016 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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