2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Chronic Health Conditions

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,314 620 14.0 12.8-15.3 3,694 86.0 84.7-87.2
Medicaid Region 5 581 72 10.9 8.3-14.0 509 89.1 86.0-91.7
GENDER
Male 277 23 7.5 4.8-11.5 254 92.5 88.5-95.2
Female 304 49 14.0 10.0-19.2 255 86.0 80.8-90.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 366 46 10.1 7.3-13.8 320 89.9 86.2-92.7
Non-Hispanic Black 101 *** *** *** 91 91.8 84.4-95.8
Other 105 16 17.9 10.0-29.8 89 82.1 70.2-90.0
AGE
18-44 221 24 8.4 5.4-12.9 197 91.6 87.1-94.6
45-64 186 31 17.7 11.9-25.5 155 82.3 74.5-88.1
65+ 169 17 7.6 4.4-12.9 152 92.4 87.1-95.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 207 23 9.6 6.0-14.8 184 90.4 85.2-94.0
Some Post-H.S. 163 21 11.3 6.7-18.3 142 88.7 81.7-93.3
College Graduate 209 28 12.8 8.7-18.4 181 87.2 81.6-91.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 181 27 10.9 7.0-16.5 154 89.1 83.5-93.0
$50,000+ 266 33 11.8 8.2-16.7 233 88.2 83.3-91.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 128 12 9.3 4.4-18.7 116 90.7 81.3-95.6

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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