2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 883 51 5.0 3.6- 6.9 832 95.0 93.1-96.4
GENDER
Male 422 25 5.1 3.1- 8.1 397 94.9 91.9-96.9
Female 461 26 5.0 3.2- 7.8 435 95.0 92.2-96.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 537 36 6.1 4.1- 8.8 501 93.9 91.2-95.9
Non-Hispanic Black 200 *** *** *** 191 96.2 91.8-98.3
Other 146 *** *** *** 140 97.3 93.9-98.9
AGE
18-44 363 *** *** *** 360 98.7 95.1-99.6
45-64 293 22 7.8 5.0-12.1 271 92.2 87.9-95.0
65+ 210 25 10.1 6.6-15.3 185 89.9 84.7-93.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 276 24 7.0 4.6-10.7 252 93.0 89.3-95.4
Some Post-H.S. 189 13 5.3 2.6-10.5 176 94.7 89.5-97.4
College Graduate 417 14 3.0 1.6- 5.7 403 97.0 94.3-98.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 309 30 8.7 5.8-12.8 279 91.3 87.2-94.2
$50,000+ 391 *** *** *** 384 98.6 96.8-99.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 174 14 7.5 3.8-14.0 160 92.5 86.0-96.2

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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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