2021 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 4,925 188 3.5 2.9- 4.3 4,737 96.5 95.7-97.1
Medicaid Region 5 1,188 56 3.4 2.4- 4.8 1,132 96.6 95.2-97.6
GENDER
Male 527 25 3.9 2.4- 6.2 502 96.1 93.8-97.6
Female 661 31 2.9 1.7- 4.9 630 97.1 95.1-98.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 659 19 2.8 1.6- 4.8 640 97.2 95.2-98.4
Non-Hispanic Black 271 20 5.8 3.4- 9.9 251 94.2 90.1-96.6
Other 243 17 2.6 1.1- 5.7 226 97.4 94.3-98.9
AGE
18-44 375 *** *** *** 371 99.4 98.0-99.8
45-64 357 11 2.8 1.3- 6.1 346 97.2 93.9-98.7
65+ 428 41 9.9 6.7-14.6 387 90.1 85.4-93.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 434 25 4.4 2.6- 7.3 409 95.6 92.7-97.4
Some Post-H.S. 346 19 3.6 2.1- 6.1 327 96.4 93.9-97.9
College Graduate 404 12 1.3 0.5- 3.3 392 98.7 96.7-99.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 470 35 5.2 3.3- 8.1 435 94.8 91.9-96.7
$50,000+ 444 *** *** *** 439 99.4 98.3-99.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 271 16 5.4 2.9- 9.9 255 94.6 90.1-97.1

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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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