2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

MORBIDITY-MATERNAL

During your most recent pregnancy, did you have any of the following health conditions? HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 772 628 84.6 81.3-87.4 144 15.4 12.6-18.7
Age
< 25 years 153 124 80.3 71.2-87.1 29 19.7 12.9-28.8
25-34 years 455 381 88.0 84.0-91.0 74 12.0 9.0-16.0
35+ years 164 123 78.4 70.4-84.7 41 21.6 15.3-29.6
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 396 319 85.1 80.5-88.7 77 14.9 11.3-19.5
Non-Hispanic Black 147 111 76.7 67.5-83.9 36 23.3 16.1-32.5
Non-Hispanic Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 159 137 91.0 84.3-95.1 22 9.0 4.9-15.7
Education
< High School 95 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 162 137 87.8 79.8-92.9 25 12.2 7.1-20.2
> High School 515 410 83.8 79.8-87.1 105 16.2 12.9-20.2
Marital Status
Married 472 390 86.9 83.1-90.0 82 13.1 10.0-16.9
Other 300 238 81.1 74.8-86.0 62 18.9 14.0-25.2
Medicaid recipient
No 405 334 84.8 80.2-88.4 71 15.2 11.6-19.8
Yes 367 294 84.4 79.3-88.5 73 15.6 11.5-20.7
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 271 196 72.8 66.9-78.0 75 27.2 22.0-33.1
2500+ grams 501 432 85.7 82.1-88.7 69 14.3 11.3-17.9

1Asked of all mothers.
2Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50.

*** This estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards.
N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).

The percentages shown are weighted percentages, designed to reflect the entire population of North Carolina women having a live birth.
The overall weighted response rate in 2020 was 45%.

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