2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 664 31 4.1 2.7- 6.4 633 95.9 93.6-97.3
GENDER
Male 295 15 4.2 2.2- 8.2 280 95.8 91.8-97.8
Female 369 16 4.1 2.3- 7.0 353 95.9 93.0-97.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 409 16 3.0 1.6- 5.3 393 97.0 94.7-98.4
Non-Hispanic Black 147 11 7.7 3.9-14.7 136 92.3 85.3-96.1
Other 91 *** *** *** 87 97.5 92.7-99.2
AGE
18-44 218 *** *** *** 212 97.6 94.4-99.0
45-64 218 *** *** *** 210 94.4 88.0-97.5
65+ 208 16 5.7 3.2- 9.8 192 94.3 90.2-96.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 237 13 3.9 2.2- 7.0 224 96.1 93.0-97.8
Some Post-H.S. 185 *** *** *** 178 95.3 89.6-98.0
College Graduate 235 11 3.8 1.8- 7.9 224 96.2 92.1-98.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 252 11 4.1 2.1- 8.1 241 95.9 91.9-97.9
$50,000+ 251 *** *** *** 243 97.7 94.8-99.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 158 12 7.1 3.4-14.3 146 92.9 85.7-96.6

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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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