2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 Demographics

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had asthma?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,684 859 13.4 12.4-14.5 5,825 86.6 85.5-87.6
Region 7 905 124 15.3 12.6-18.4 781 84.7 81.6-87.4
GENDER
Male 392 44 14.0 10.3-18.9 348 86.0 81.1-89.7
Female 513 80 16.4 12.9-20.7 433 83.6 79.3-87.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 532 74 15.9 12.3-20.2 458 84.1 79.8-87.7
Non-Hispanic Black 219 35 17.3 12.1-24.2 184 82.7 75.8-87.9
Other 139 15 10.8 6.3-17.8 124 89.2 82.2-93.7
AGE
18-44 376 64 20.2 15.7-25.6 312 79.8 74.4-84.3
44-64 316 35 10.5 7.1-15.3 281 89.5 84.7-92.9
65+ 197 25 12.5 8.1-18.9 172 87.5 81.1-91.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 313 46 18.4 13.5-24.5 267 81.6 75.5-86.5
Some College + 588 78 13.6 10.6-17.2 510 86.4 82.8-89.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 362 53 19.2 14.4-25.2 309 80.8 74.8-85.6
$50,000+ 356 45 12.1 8.8-16.4 311 87.9 83.6-91.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2015 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2015 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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