2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Falls (Age 45+)

In the past 12 months, how many times have you fallen?

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  Total
Respond.^		 1 fall 2 or more falls No falls
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,542 300 11.8 10.1-13.6 332 12.1 10.4-14.1 1,910 76.1 73.6-78.4
Medicaid Region 4 555 63 10.2 7.6-13.5 52 8.3 6.0-11.4 440 81.5 77.4-85.0
GENDER
Male 246 21 5.4 3.2- 9.0 19 5.6 3.2- 9.7 206 89.0 84.0-92.5
Female 309 42 14.3 10.2-19.8 33 10.7 7.3-15.6 234 74.9 68.6-80.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 358 45 11.4 8.1-15.8 35 9.4 6.3-13.7 278 79.2 73.8-83.8
Non-Hispanic Black 123 13 8.2 4.2-15.5 12 6.9 3.6-13.0 98 84.8 76.5-90.6
Other 68 *** *** *** *** *** *** 59 87.4 75.1-94.1
AGE
45-64 301 26 8.6 5.6-13.0 25 6.7 4.3-10.4 250 84.7 79.5-88.7
65+ 252 35 11.4 7.6-16.7 27 11.0 6.9-17.1 190 77.6 70.5-83.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 122 *** *** *** *** *** *** 106 88.3 80.1-93.4
Some Post-H.S. 131 21 15.3 9.7-23.4 17 11.9 6.9-19.8 93 72.8 63.3-80.5
College Graduate 300 36 11.5 7.8-16.7 25 6.3 3.9-10.1 239 82.2 76.5-86.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 141 19 9.7 5.6-16.4 19 12.5 7.5-20.2 103 77.8 69.0-84.7
$50,000+ 310 36 10.5 7.2-15.1 25 7.1 4.4-11.4 249 82.3 76.8-86.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 104 *** *** *** *** *** *** 88 83.6 72.5-90.8

Back to Falls (Age 45+).

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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