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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 6 & 7 | 964 | 76 | 11.5 | 8.6-15.1 | 705 | 69.3 | 65.3-73.1 | 99 | 10.6 | 8.4-13.4 | 47 | 4.7 | 3.3- 6.8 | 37 | 3.8 | 2.6- 5.5 |
| GENDER | ||||||||||||||||
| Male | 459 | 47 | 13.5 | 9.7-18.5 | 308 | 65.0 | 59.3-70.3 | 55 | 11.2 | 8.2-15.2 | 20 | 3.8 | 2.3- 6.2 | 29 | 6.6 | 4.3- 9.9 |
| Female | 505 | 29 | 9.6 | 5.8-15.5 | 397 | 73.3 | 67.3-78.6 | 44 | 10.1 | 7.1-14.2 | 27 | 5.6 | 3.4- 9.2 | *** | *** | *** |
| RACE | ||||||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 558 | 35 | 8.8 | 6.0-12.8 | 410 | 70.7 | 65.7-75.1 | 62 | 11.9 | 8.9-15.7 | 27 | 4.6 | 3.0- 6.9 | 24 | 4.1 | 2.6- 6.4 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 265 | 25 | 14.3 | 8.5-22.9 | 203 | 72.6 | 64.2-79.7 | 24 | 9.3 | 5.7-14.7 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 141 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | 13 | 7.8 | 3.6-16.2 | 12 | 11.1 | 4.9-23.2 | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | ||||||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 355 | 52 | 19.5 | 14.1-26.2 | 211 | 55.9 | 49.1-62.4 | 47 | 13.5 | 9.7-18.7 | 24 | 5.9 | 3.5- 9.7 | 21 | 5.3 | 3.3- 8.3 |
| 45-64 | 391 | 12 | 4.4 | 2.0- 9.5 | 302 | 76.3 | 70.4-81.3 | 43 | 10.7 | 7.7-14.9 | 20 | 5.0 | 2.9- 8.3 | 14 | 3.6 | 1.8- 6.9 |
| 65+ | 209 | 12 | 4.9 | 2.5- 9.3 | 184 | 89.4 | 83.7-93.3 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| EDUCATION | ||||||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 318 | 37 | 15.7 | 10.5-23.0 | 225 | 66.6 | 59.1-73.3 | 25 | 7.3 | 4.5-11.5 | 14 | 5.1 | 2.6-10.0 | 17 | 5.3 | 3.0- 9.2 |
| Some College + | 643 | 39 | 8.9 | 6.0-13.2 | 478 | 71.1 | 66.2-75.5 | 74 | 12.8 | 9.8-16.5 | 33 | 4.5 | 3.0- 6.7 | 19 | 2.7 | 1.7- 4.4 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | ||||||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 423 | 35 | 13.6 | 8.7-20.8 | 297 | 64.2 | 57.4-70.4 | 42 | 11.8 | 8.2-16.6 | 27 | 5.8 | 3.7- 8.8 | 22 | 4.6 | 2.7- 7.8 |
| $50,000+ | 373 | 19 | 6.9 | 4.1-11.3 | 286 | 75.1 | 69.3-80.0 | 46 | 12.2 | 8.7-16.8 | 13 | 3.0 | 1.6- 5.6 | *** | *** | *** |
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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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