2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 1,048 394 31.8 28.4-35.4 654 68.2 64.6-71.6
GENDER
Male 450 174 35.3 30.0-41.1 276 64.7 58.9-70.0
Female 598 220 28.6 24.3-33.3 378 71.4 66.7-75.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 564 186 29.6 25.1-34.4 378 70.4 65.6-74.9
Non-Hispanic Black 251 119 40.3 33.0-48.1 132 59.7 51.9-67.0
Other 221 86 27.0 19.9-35.6 135 73.0 64.4-80.1
AGE
18-44 300 53 17.4 12.6-23.4 247 82.6 76.6-87.4
45-64 332 130 37.2 31.0-43.9 202 62.8 56.1-69.0
65+ 393 205 48.8 42.5-55.2 188 51.2 44.8-57.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 390 153 35.0 29.1-41.3 237 65.0 58.7-70.9
Some Post-H.S. 307 117 29.1 23.5-35.4 190 70.9 64.6-76.5
College Graduate 349 124 30.3 25.0-36.1 225 69.7 63.9-75.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 411 167 31.9 26.7-37.6 244 68.1 62.4-73.3
$50,000+ 387 121 28.4 22.9-34.7 266 71.6 65.3-77.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 250 106 37.5 30.0-45.6 144 62.5 54.4-70.0

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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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