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| Total Respond.^ |
Never | Past 12 months | 1-2 years | 2-5 years | 5+ years | |||||||||||
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| N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
| North Carolina | 4,647 | 341 | 9.3 | 8.2-10.6 | 3,510 | 71.3 | 69.5-73.1 | 382 | 9.4 | 8.3-10.6 | 242 | 6.1 | 5.2- 7.1 | 172 | 3.9 | 3.2- 4.7 |
| Region 3 & 5 | 882 | 64 | 7.4 | 5.6- 9.7 | 644 | 70.9 | 67.1-74.4 | 87 | 11.3 | 9.0-14.3 | 57 | 6.5 | 4.9- 8.7 | 30 | 3.8 | 2.5- 5.9 |
| GENDER | ||||||||||||||||
| Male | 375 | 27 | 7.3 | 4.8-10.9 | 268 | 68.7 | 62.9-74.1 | 40 | 12.5 | 9.0-17.2 | 26 | 6.9 | 4.5-10.5 | 14 | 4.5 | 2.4- 8.4 |
| Female | 507 | 37 | 7.5 | 5.2-10.7 | 376 | 72.8 | 67.9-77.3 | 47 | 10.3 | 7.3-14.3 | 31 | 6.2 | 4.2- 9.2 | 16 | 3.2 | 1.8- 5.5 |
| RACE | ||||||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 602 | 30 | 5.6 | 3.7- 8.3 | 462 | 74.9 | 70.5-78.8 | 51 | 9.3 | 6.8-12.4 | 40 | 6.9 | 4.9- 9.6 | 19 | 3.4 | 1.9- 6.0 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 166 | 19 | 8.7 | 5.3-14.1 | 117 | 69.9 | 60.6-77.8 | 22 | 16.3 | 10.2-25.2 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 114 | 15 | 17.4 | 10.3-28.0 | *** | *** | *** | 14 | 17.0 | 9.3-29.1 | 11 | 10.4 | 5.3-19.2 | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | ||||||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 302 | 43 | 13.3 | 9.6-18.2 | 159 | 53.7 | 47.0-60.2 | 51 | 17.1 | 12.6-22.8 | 31 | 9.5 | 6.4-13.9 | 18 | 6.4 | 3.7-10.9 |
| 45-64 | 323 | 15 | 3.4 | 2.0- 5.9 | 249 | 78.3 | 72.7-83.0 | 26 | 9.0 | 5.8-13.7 | 24 | 6.5 | 4.1-10.0 | *** | *** | *** |
| 65+ | 249 | *** | *** | *** | 229 | 90.7 | 85.5-94.2 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| EDUCATION | ||||||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 289 | 25 | 8.4 | 5.5-12.7 | 212 | 72.4 | 65.7-78.1 | 27 | 10.4 | 6.8-15.8 | *** | *** | *** | 15 | 5.3 | 2.8-10.0 |
| Some College + | 589 | 39 | 6.8 | 4.8- 9.7 | 430 | 70.0 | 65.4-74.3 | 60 | 12.0 | 9.1-15.6 | 45 | 8.2 | 5.9-11.3 | 15 | 2.9 | 1.7- 5.0 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | ||||||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 368 | 36 | 9.0 | 6.1-13.0 | 261 | 67.4 | 61.3-73.0 | 34 | 12.4 | 8.6-17.6 | 20 | 6.2 | 3.8- 9.9 | 17 | 5.0 | 2.7- 9.1 |
| $50,000+ | 368 | 14 | 5.0 | 2.9- 8.5 | 280 | 74.9 | 69.3-79.7 | 39 | 11.1 | 7.9-15.5 | 26 | 6.5 | 4.2- 9.9 | *** | *** | *** |
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*Asked only of those who report being told they have high blood pressure.
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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