2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

Chronic Health Conditions

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

(Ever told) you had a stroke?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,717 227 3.8 3.2- 4.5 4,490 96.2 95.5-96.8
Medicaid Region 6 866 53 4.7 3.2- 6.7 813 95.3 93.3-96.8
GENDER
Male 397 24 4.7 2.8- 7.8 373 95.3 92.2-97.2
Female 469 29 4.7 2.8- 7.8 440 95.3 92.2-97.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 549 26 4.2 2.4- 7.3 523 95.8 92.7-97.6
Non-Hispanic Black 236 22 5.7 3.4- 9.4 214 94.3 90.6-96.6
Other 81 *** *** *** 76 95.7 88.4-98.4
AGE
18-44 266 *** *** *** 262 98.7 96.5-99.5
45-64 315 27 8.0 4.8-13.2 288 92.0 86.8-95.2
65+ 273 22 7.4 4.1-12.9 251 92.6 87.1-95.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 354 28 5.5 3.4- 8.8 326 94.5 91.2-96.6
Some Post-H.S. 257 11 3.5 1.5- 8.2 246 96.5 91.8-98.5
College Graduate 254 14 5.0 2.6- 9.3 240 95.0 90.7-97.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 426 31 5.2 3.2- 8.2 395 94.8 91.8-96.8
$50,000+ 273 11 3.1 1.6- 6.2 262 96.9 93.8-98.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 160 *** *** *** 150 93.7 85.2-97.5

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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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