2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Home/Self-measured Blood Pressure

Do you regularly check your blood pressure outside of your healthcare professional’s office or at home?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,180 1,323 29.2 27.5-31.0 2,857 70.8 69.0-72.5
Medicaid Region 1 458 133 30.6 25.3-36.6 325 69.4 63.4-74.7
GENDER
Male 213 66 31.9 24.0-40.9 147 68.1 59.1-76.0
Female 245 67 29.6 21.7-38.9 178 70.4 61.1-78.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 366 111 32.3 26.3-38.9 255 67.7 61.1-73.7
Non-Hispanic Black 20 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 65 14 15.4 8.1-27.3 51 84.6 72.7-91.9
AGE
18-44 127 *** *** *** 117 92.6 86.2-96.1
45-64 171 54 36.1 26.7-46.6 117 63.9 53.4-73.3
65+ 152 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 163 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 126 39 27.0 18.6-37.5 87 73.0 62.5-81.4
College Graduate 167 36 19.1 13.5-26.3 131 80.9 73.7-86.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 185 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 176 45 24.1 17.7-32.0 131 75.9 68.0-82.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 97 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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