2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 488 56 10.2 7.6-13.5 69 13.1 10.1-17.0 363 76.7 72.1-80.7
GENDER
Male 226 27 9.5 6.2-14.2 32 13.9 9.5-19.9 167 76.6 70.0-82.2
Female 262 29 10.7 7.2-15.7 37 12.6 8.7-17.8 196 76.7 70.4-82.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 319 46 11.8 8.6-16.0 43 14.1 10.2-19.2 230 74.1 68.3-79.2
Non-Hispanic Black 114 *** *** *** 18 11.0 6.3-18.6 91 83.9 75.0-90.1
Other 55 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 274 27 9.8 6.5-14.4 42 14.0 10.1-19.2 205 76.2 70.2-81.3
65+ 212 27 9.5 6.2-14.2 27 11.8 7.6-17.9 158 78.7 71.7-84.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 164 16 9.6 5.6-16.1 22 11.0 6.8-17.3 126 79.4 71.6-85.5
Some Post-H.S. 107 13 7.6 4.0-13.9 21 16.9 10.4-26.1 73 75.5 65.7-83.2
College Graduate 216 27 12.7 8.5-18.5 26 13.0 8.4-19.5 163 74.3 67.0-80.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 176 20 8.7 5.3-13.9 37 20.6 14.2-28.9 119 70.7 62.1-78.1
$50,000+ 221 28 11.8 7.9-17.3 21 9.1 5.8-13.9 172 79.1 72.8-84.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 91 *** *** *** 11 10.3 5.1-19.6 72 81.2 69.9-88.9

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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