2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 864 84 9.1 6.9-11.9 780 90.9 88.1-93.1
GENDER
Male 397 33 8.8 5.8-13.2 364 91.2 86.8-94.2
Female 467 51 9.3 6.4-13.3 416 90.7 86.7-93.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 547 62 10.8 7.8-14.7 485 89.2 85.3-92.2
Non-Hispanic Black 235 20 7.2 4.1-12.5 215 92.8 87.5-95.9
Other 82 *** *** *** 80 96.5 86.8-99.1
AGE
18-44 266 11 5.1 2.6- 9.7 255 94.9 90.3-97.4
45-64 315 37 11.0 7.2-16.4 278 89.0 83.6-92.8
65+ 271 34 14.8 9.8-21.8 237 85.2 78.2-90.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 353 46 12.0 8.3-17.1 307 88.0 82.9-91.7
Some Post-H.S. 256 22 7.7 4.6-12.6 234 92.3 87.4-95.4
College Graduate 254 16 5.0 2.8- 9.0 238 95.0 91.0-97.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 425 54 11.9 8.4-16.7 371 88.1 83.3-91.6
$50,000+ 273 13 4.2 2.3- 7.7 260 95.8 92.3-97.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 159 16 10.6 5.7-18.9 143 89.4 81.1-94.3

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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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