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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Indiana Statewide Survey Data, 2015

 

C04.02 Are you currently taking medicine for your high blood pressure? (BPMEDS)

Denominator is all respondents who were ever told they have high blood pressure. Weighting based on _llcpwt.

 

Categories

Yes

No

Total

%

%

N

Age Group:

**

**

26

      18-24

      25-34

34.9

65.1

51

      35-44

57.3

42.7

114

      45-54

77.4

22.6

298

      55-64

86.2

13.8

686

      65-74

93.3

6.7

769

      75 +

93.3

6.7

676

      Unk/Ref

**

**

22

Sex:

76.4

23.6

1,156

      Male

      Female

82.4

17.6

1,486

Race/Ethnicity:

79.5

20.5

2,327

      White, Non-Hispanic

      Black, Non-Hispanic

89.7

10.3

147

      Other/Multiracial, Non-Hispanic

67.6

32.4

71

      Hispanic

58.1

41.9

50

      Unk/Ref

**

**

47

Income Group:

80.1

19.9

275

      < $15,000

      $15-$24,999

80.0

20.0

462

      $25-$49,999

79.1

20.9

655

      $50-$74,999

75.8

24.2

367

      >=$75,000

76.7

23.3

459

      Unk/Ref

84.6

15.4

424

Education Level:

73.5

26.5

259

      < H S Graduate

      H S Graduate/GED

82.1

17.9

983

      Some college/Tech school

80.3

19.7

657

      College graduate

77.1

22.9

726

      Unk/Ref

***

***

17

Marital Status:

83.6

16.4

1,344

      Married

      Unmarried

74.2

25.8

1,280

      Unk/Ref

**

**

18

Employment Status:

70.0

30.0

880

      Employed

      Not employed

72.7

27.3

79

      Student/Homemaker

73.0

27.0

159

      Retired/Unable to work

89.9

10.1

1,500

      Unk/Ref

**

**

24

Grand Totals

79.3

20.7

2,642

 

SOURCE: 2015 Indiana BRFSS Statewide Survey Data

 

NOTE:      Percents are based on weighted data; unless otherwise specified, totals are unweighted numbers.

                ** Asterisks indicate too few cases to calculate a reliable percent.

                Excluding the 'Unknown/Refused' responses

Table produced September 8, 2016

 

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