2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 4,274 362 7.8 6.9- 8.7 3,912 92.2 91.3-93.1
Medicaid Region 1 526 43 8.5 5.9-12.0 483 91.5 88.0-94.1
GENDER
Male 269 14 5.0 2.7- 9.1 255 95.0 90.9-97.3
Female 257 29 11.7 7.5-17.7 228 88.3 82.3-92.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 423 40 9.2 6.4-13.2 383 90.8 86.8-93.6
Non-Hispanic Black 42 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 61 *** *** *** 59 96.8 87.6-99.3
AGE
18-44 158 *** *** *** 154 97.2 91.6-99.1
45-64 183 16 9.0 5.2-14.9 167 91.0 85.1-94.8
65+ 176 23 15.9 9.5-25.4 153 84.1 74.6-90.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 176 20 11.0 6.9-17.0 156 89.0 83.0-93.1
Some Post-H.S. 153 13 9.2 4.5-17.9 140 90.8 82.1-95.5
College Graduate 197 *** *** *** 187 96.3 93.0-98.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 232 25 11.5 7.0-18.3 207 88.5 81.7-93.0
$50,000+ 172 *** *** *** 167 96.9 92.1-98.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 116 13 10.3 5.7-18.1 103 89.7 81.9-94.3

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 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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