2023 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 4,073 184 3.8 3.1- 4.7 3,889 96.2 95.3-96.9
Medicaid Region 5 974 43 3.5 2.2- 5.6 931 96.5 94.4-97.8
GENDER
Male 411 *** *** *** 405 97.8 94.9-99.1
Female 563 37 4.8 2.7- 8.4 526 95.2 91.6-97.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 411 14 2.8 1.3- 6.0 397 97.2 94.0-98.7
Non-Hispanic Black 165 11 7.0 3.5-13.6 154 93.0 86.4-96.5
Other 384 18 1.7 0.7- 4.2 366 98.3 95.8-99.3
AGE
18-44 321 *** *** *** 315 98.9 96.7-99.6
45-64 344 14 4.7 2.3- 9.4 330 95.3 90.6-97.7
65+ 294 22 4.9 2.4- 9.7 272 95.1 90.3-97.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 319 11 3.4 1.4- 8.2 308 96.6 91.8-98.6
Some Post-H.S. 302 16 2.5 1.1- 5.8 286 97.5 94.2-98.9
College Graduate 350 15 5.1 2.5-10.0 335 94.9 90.0-97.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 359 27 7.1 3.8-12.7 332 92.9 87.3-96.2
$50,000+ 393 *** *** *** 384 97.8 95.1-99.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 213 *** *** *** 206 99.3 97.5-99.8

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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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