2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

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 4,708 427 8.1 7.2- 9.1 4,281 91.9 90.9-92.8
Medicaid Region 5 818 85 9.2 7.2-11.8 733 90.8 88.2-92.8
GENDER
Male 381 32 7.0 4.7-10.3 349 93.0 89.7-95.3
Female 437 53 11.2 8.1-15.4 384 88.8 84.6-91.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 503 54 9.3 7.0-12.4 449 90.7 87.6-93.0
Non-Hispanic Black 163 16 7.6 4.4-13.0 147 92.4 87.0-95.6
Other 152 15 11.4 5.2-23.1 137 88.6 76.9-94.8
AGE
18-44 294 13 3.8 2.1- 6.9 281 96.2 93.1-97.9
45-64 261 32 12.5 8.2-18.5 229 87.5 81.5-91.8
65+ 244 39 16.7 11.7-23.3 205 83.3 76.7-88.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 309 49 13.5 9.6-18.6 260 86.5 81.4-90.4
Some Post-H.S. 250 24 7.9 5.0-12.3 226 92.1 87.7-95.0
College Graduate 258 12 3.6 1.9- 6.7 246 96.4 93.3-98.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 412 68 16.0 12.2-20.8 344 84.0 79.2-87.8
$50,000+ 254 *** *** *** 250 99.0 96.9-99.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 142 13 6.6 3.4-12.3 129 93.4 87.7-96.6

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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