2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Chronic Health Conditions

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

(Ever told) you have (COPD) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema or chronic bronchitis?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,882 444 7.8 6.9- 8.8 4,438 92.2 91.2-93.1
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 812 95 10.0 7.5-13.2 717 90.0 86.8-92.5
Region 3 & 5 925 80 7.9 6.1-10.0 845 92.1 90.0-93.9
Region 4 682 61 8.4 6.3-11.1 621 91.6 88.9-93.7
Region 6 & 7 1,010 70 6.0 4.5- 8.0 940 94.0 92.0-95.5
Region 8 713 81 9.1 6.8-11.9 632 90.9 88.1-93.2
Region 9 & 10 742 57 6.9 5.0- 9.4 685 93.1 90.6-95.0
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,938 187 8.4 6.9-10.1 1,751 91.6 89.9-93.1
Piedmont 2,002 145 6.9 5.7- 8.3 1,857 93.1 91.7-94.3
Western NC 944 112 10.5 8.1-13.4 832 89.5 86.6-91.9
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 727 85 10.9 8.0-14.7 642 89.1 85.3-92.0
Northwest 624 71 11.7 8.9-15.2 553 88.3 84.8-91.1
Charlotte 559 49 7.7 5.6-10.5 510 92.3 89.5-94.4
Greensboro 384 28 5.6 3.6- 8.5 356 94.4 91.5-96.4
Southern Regional 696 72 7.1 5.2- 9.7 624 92.9 90.3-94.8
Southeast 306 30 9.8 6.5-14.7 276 90.2 85.3-93.5
Wake 634 26 3.5 2.2- 5.4 608 96.5 94.6-97.8
Area L & Eastern 954 83 8.5 6.5-11.2 871 91.5 88.8-93.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 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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