2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

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 diabetes?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes Yes, during pregnancy No No, borderline diabetes
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,902 658 11.3 10.3-12.5 24 0.6 0.4- 1.0 4,115 86.1 84.9-87.3 105 1.9 1.5- 2.5
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 814 97 11.2 8.4-14.6 *** *** *** 698 86.6 83.0-89.6 16 1.7 0.9- 3.0
Region 3 & 5 927 99 9.4 7.5-11.8 *** *** *** 810 88.7 86.2-90.8 15 1.7 0.9- 3.0
Region 4 686 82 10.2 8.0-12.9 *** *** *** 586 86.8 83.8-89.4 11 1.5 0.8- 3.0
Region 6 & 7 1,013 146 12.9 10.7-15.6 *** *** *** 842 84.6 81.7-87.1 22 2.2 1.3- 3.7
Region 8 719 120 12.9 10.4-16.0 *** *** *** 573 83.8 80.5-86.7 21 2.8 1.6- 4.8
Region 9 & 10 745 114 13.8 11.1-16.9 *** *** *** 608 83.4 80.0-86.4 20 2.3 1.3- 4.0
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,950 314 14.1 12.2-16.2 *** *** *** 1,573 83.0 80.7-85.0 53 2.5 1.7- 3.5
Piedmont 2,006 227 10.0 8.6-11.6 11 0.7 0.4- 1.4 1,736 87.6 85.8-89.1 32 1.7 1.1- 2.5
Western NC 948 117 11.5 9.0-14.5 *** *** *** 808 86.4 83.2-89.1 20 1.7 1.0- 2.9
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 728 84 10.0 7.6-13.0 *** *** *** 627 87.8 84.6-90.5 15 2.0 1.1- 3.7
Northwest 627 96 14.2 11.3-17.8 *** *** *** 516 82.6 78.6-86.0 *** *** ***
Charlotte 563 62 9.4 7.1-12.3 *** *** *** 489 88.6 85.4-91.2 *** *** ***
Greensboro 383 33 9.2 6.2-13.2 *** *** *** 345 89.8 85.6-92.8 *** *** ***
Southern Regional 700 127 13.2 10.5-16.6 *** *** *** 549 83.4 79.7-86.6 18 2.4 1.4- 4.3
Southeast 307 34 10.6 7.3-15.1 *** *** *** 261 85.5 80.4-89.4 12 4.0 2.1- 7.4
Wake 635 70 9.4 7.2-12.2 *** *** *** 550 87.8 84.6-90.4 13 2.5 1.3- 4.8
Area L & Eastern 961 152 15.4 12.5-18.7 *** *** *** 780 82.0 78.5-85.0 25 2.3 1.3- 3.9

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 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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