SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)**

Asthma

How old were you when you were first told by a doctor or other health professional that you had asthma?*

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Under 11 11-19 20-39 40+
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,141 266 27.2 23.5-31.2 152 18.5 15.0-22.6 289 25.8 22.4-29.4 434 28.6 25.5-31.9
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) 61 13 22.1 11.7-37.7 8 18.6 7.7-38.7 16 21.6 10.9-38.3 24 37.7 24.5-53.0
GENDER
Male 18 6 31.9 12.4-60.7 3 9.0 2.3-28.9 2 10.9 1.8-45.4 7 48.3 23.8-73.6
Female 43 7 17.3 7.2-36.0 5 23.4 8.5-49.8 14 26.8 12.8-47.9 17 32.5 18.8-50.0
RACE
White 55 13 24.5 13.1-41.1 7 13.6 5.0-32.2 13 22.6 11.1-40.4 22 39.3 25.4-55.2
Other 6 0 0.0 . - . 1 64.8 16.2-94.6 3 12.7 1.6-56.7 2 22.5 3.1-72.8
AGE
18-44 23 8 31.2 14.2-55.5 5 27.2 9.2-57.9 9 33.9 14.9-60.0 1 7.7 1.1-38.7
45+ 38 5 11.8 3.2-35.4 3 9.0 2.4-28.4 7 7.8 3.1-18.3 23 71.4 51.4-85.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 31 5 15.4 5.0-38.6 4 21.6 6.4-52.9 9 14.2 5.0-34.0 13 48.8 27.3-70.6
Some College + 30 8 28.2 12.8-51.1 4 15.9 4.2-45.1 7 28.3 11.8-53.7 11 27.7 14.1-47.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 41 9 20.4 8.8-40.7 7 28.9 12.4-53.8 11 17.8 8.0-34.9 14 32.9 18.5-51.4
$50,000+ 9 2 27.6 6.7-67.1 0 0.0 . - . 3 47.2 15.8-81.1 4 25.2 7.8-57.3

Back to Asthma.

*These data apply only to those with current asthma

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = 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.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16AUG06.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook