2019 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 4,274 362 7.8 6.9- 8.7 3,912 92.2 91.3-93.1
Medicaid Region 4 574 49 8.2 6.0-11.0 525 91.8 89.0-94.0
GENDER
Male 263 22 8.5 5.5-12.9 241 91.5 87.1-94.5
Female 311 27 7.9 5.1-11.9 284 92.1 88.1-94.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 341 34 9.9 6.9-14.0 307 90.1 86.0-93.1
Non-Hispanic Black 139 *** *** *** 131 94.1 87.8-97.2
Other 94 *** *** *** 87 95.5 89.9-98.1
AGE
18-44 239 *** *** *** 229 95.3 91.2-97.5
45-64 179 15 7.5 4.3-12.7 164 92.5 87.3-95.7
65+ 147 23 17.1 11.1-25.3 124 82.9 74.7-88.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 166 21 11.8 7.5-17.9 145 88.2 82.1-92.5
Some Post-H.S. 150 18 8.9 5.3-14.6 132 91.1 85.4-94.7
College Graduate 255 *** *** *** 245 96.2 92.4-98.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 197 25 12.3 8.2-18.1 172 87.7 81.9-91.8
$50,000+ 242 *** *** *** 232 96.0 92.3-98.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 129 14 10.6 5.8-18.7 115 89.4 81.3-94.2

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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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