2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

Not including kidney stones, bladder infection or incontinence, were you (Ever told) you have kidney disease?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,714 184 3.2 2.6- 3.9 4,530 96.8 96.1-97.4
Medicaid Region 5 819 36 3.5 2.3- 5.2 783 96.5 94.8-97.7
GENDER
Male 381 12 2.3 1.3- 4.4 369 97.7 95.6-98.7
Female 438 24 4.6 2.7- 7.6 414 95.4 92.4-97.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 506 21 3.6 2.1- 6.3 485 96.4 93.7-97.9
Non-Hispanic Black 163 *** *** *** 154 96.3 92.8-98.2
Other 150 *** *** *** 144 97.4 94.0-98.9
AGE
18-44 293 *** *** *** 291 99.7 98.6-99.9
45-64 260 13 4.0 2.2- 7.2 247 96.0 92.8-97.8
65+ 247 21 9.7 5.6-16.2 226 90.3 83.8-94.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 311 15 2.8 1.6- 5.0 296 97.2 95.0-98.4
Some Post-H.S. 250 14 5.0 2.6- 9.5 236 95.0 90.5-97.4
College Graduate 257 *** *** *** 250 97.5 94.5-98.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 413 21 4.0 2.5- 6.4 392 96.0 93.6-97.5
$50,000+ 254 *** *** *** 248 98.6 96.9-99.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 142 *** *** *** 134 94.3 85.8-97.8

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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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