2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Home/Self-measured Blood Pressure

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,179 1,252 27.2 25.6-28.9 2,927 72.8 71.1-74.4
Medicaid Region 3 568 142 23.7 20.0-27.9 426 76.3 72.1-80.0
GENDER
Male 261 71 25.4 19.8-31.9 190 74.6 68.1-80.2
Female 307 71 22.3 17.4-28.0 236 77.7 72.0-82.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 369 87 21.8 17.4-27.0 282 78.2 73.0-82.6
Non-Hispanic Black 103 42 35.2 25.8-45.8 61 64.8 54.2-74.2
Other 84 *** *** *** 74 87.6 76.5-93.9
AGE
18-44 199 19 10.8 6.7-16.9 180 89.2 83.1-93.3
45-64 190 48 26.5 19.9-34.3 142 73.5 65.7-80.1
65+ 160 72 46.8 37.9-55.8 88 53.2 44.2-62.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 169 52 28.2 21.1-36.5 117 71.8 63.5-78.9
Some Post-H.S. 164 45 25.5 18.9-33.4 119 74.5 66.6-81.1
College Graduate 232 44 16.1 11.9-21.4 188 83.9 78.6-88.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 166 58 31.5 23.9-40.1 108 68.5 59.9-76.1
$50,000+ 282 53 18.5 13.9-24.4 229 81.5 75.6-86.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 120 31 24.2 16.7-33.9 89 75.8 66.1-83.3

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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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