2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 5,825 432 6.5 5.7- 7.3 5,393 93.5 92.7-94.3
Medicaid Region 3 935 54 5.8 4.3- 7.9 881 94.2 92.1-95.7
GENDER
Male 428 16 3.9 2.2- 6.8 412 96.1 93.2-97.8
Female 507 38 7.6 5.3-10.8 469 92.4 89.2-94.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 619 41 7.5 5.3-10.5 578 92.5 89.5-94.7
Non-Hispanic Black 168 *** *** *** 162 97.5 93.7-99.0
Other 148 *** *** *** 141 96.6 92.8-98.5
AGE
18-44 347 *** *** *** 342 98.8 97.1-99.5
45-64 317 24 9.1 5.8-13.8 293 90.9 86.2-94.2
65+ 245 24 12.0 7.5-18.5 221 88.0 81.5-92.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 317 27 7.9 5.1-12.0 290 92.1 88.0-94.9
Some Post-H.S. 251 19 7.0 4.3-11.2 232 93.0 88.8-95.7
College Graduate 364 *** *** *** 356 98.3 96.4-99.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 315 34 11.4 7.8-16.4 281 88.6 83.6-92.2
$50,000+ 408 11 2.6 1.4- 4.9 397 97.4 95.1-98.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 194 *** *** *** 185 96.2 92.5-98.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2020 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2020 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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