2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 1 & 2 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 4,893 200 4.2 3.5- 5.0 4,693 95.8 95.0-96.5
Region 1 & 2 815 42 5.3 3.4- 8.1 773 94.7 91.9-96.6
GENDER
Male 360 18 5.7 2.9-10.9 342 94.3 89.1-97.1
Female 455 24 5.0 2.9- 8.3 431 95.0 91.7-97.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 716 41 5.9 3.8- 9.1 675 94.1 90.9-96.2
Non-Hispanic Black 29 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 70 *** *** *** 69 99.2 94.7-99.9
AGE
18-44 202 *** *** *** 198 97.7 93.4-99.2
45-64 280 18 8.0 4.1-15.0 262 92.0 85.0-95.9
65+ 324 20 6.6 3.5-11.9 304 93.4 88.1-96.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 287 18 7.2 3.9-12.8 269 92.8 87.2-96.1
Some College + 525 23 3.4 1.9- 6.1 502 96.6 93.9-98.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 385 24 5.5 3.2- 9.1 361 94.5 90.9-96.8
$50,000+ 274 *** *** *** 264 93.6 86.2-97.2

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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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