2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 874 228 25.6 22.4-29.1 646 74.4 70.9-77.6
GENDER
Male 415 124 28.5 23.8-33.8 291 71.5 66.2-76.2
Female 459 104 23.1 18.9-27.8 355 76.9 72.2-81.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 521 132 25.2 21.2-29.7 389 74.8 70.3-78.8
Non-Hispanic Black 185 65 33.3 26.1-41.5 120 66.7 58.5-73.9
Other 155 27 15.1 9.8-22.4 128 84.9 77.6-90.2
AGE
18-44 351 52 14.1 10.5-18.7 299 85.9 81.3-89.5
45-64 302 75 27.1 21.7-33.4 227 72.9 66.6-78.3
65+ 204 97 46.9 38.9-55.1 107 53.1 44.9-61.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 232 62 27.1 21.0-34.2 170 72.9 65.8-79.0
Some Post-H.S. 172 49 28.6 21.8-36.6 123 71.4 63.4-78.2
College Graduate 465 116 22.5 18.7-26.7 349 77.5 73.3-81.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 264 75 26.3 20.7-32.9 189 73.7 67.1-79.3
$50,000+ 434 108 25.1 20.7-30.2 326 74.9 69.8-79.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 176 45 25.6 19.0-33.7 131 74.4 66.3-81.0

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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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