2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

Falls (Age 45+)

In the past 12 months, how many times have you fallen?

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  Total
Respond.^
1 fall 2 or more falls No falls
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,883 353 11.7 10.2-13.3 413 12.8 11.4-14.4 2,117 75.5 73.4-77.5
Medicaid Region 3 408 53 14.4 10.5-19.4 50 10.0 7.1-13.8 305 75.7 70.1-80.5
GENDER
Male 190 13 9.1 4.9-16.4 20 10.0 5.7-16.9 157 80.9 72.6-87.2
Female 218 40 19.5 13.5-27.3 30 9.9 6.6-14.6 148 70.6 62.7-77.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 301 41 16.3 11.5-22.7 35 9.7 6.4-14.5 225 73.9 67.1-79.8
Non-Hispanic Black 71 *** *** *** *** *** *** 53 81.2 70.1-88.8
Other 36 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 228 24 12.2 7.9-18.4 25 9.7 6.1-15.0 179 78.1 71.2-83.8
65+ 175 26 16.4 9.9-26.0 23 10.2 6.2-16.3 126 73.4 63.8-81.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 144 14 11.3 5.9-20.6 19 10.5 6.4-16.7 111 78.2 68.9-85.4
Some Post-H.S. 122 23 21.1 13.7-31.2 11 8.8 4.1-17.8 88 70.1 59.4-79.0
College Graduate 141 15 9.2 5.3-15.5 20 10.9 6.7-17.2 106 79.9 72.2-85.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 158 21 14.4 8.5-23.3 27 14.1 9.2-20.9 110 71.5 62.4-79.2
$50,000+ 168 15 9.5 5.4-16.1 17 9.1 4.8-16.4 136 81.4 73.1-87.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 82 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

Back to Falls (Age 45+).

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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