2020 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 5,825 432 6.5 5.7- 7.3 5,393 93.5 92.7-94.3
Medicaid Region 6 757 55 4.8 3.6- 6.5 702 95.2 93.5-96.4
GENDER
Male 351 25 5.0 3.2- 7.7 326 95.0 92.3-96.8
Female 406 30 4.7 3.1- 7.0 376 95.3 93.0-96.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 500 36 4.7 3.3- 6.7 464 95.3 93.3-96.7
Non-Hispanic Black 173 13 4.7 2.5- 8.7 160 95.3 91.3-97.5
Other 84 *** *** *** 78 94.4 85.6-98.0
AGE
18-44 232 *** *** *** 227 98.5 96.2-99.4
45-64 276 26 7.9 5.2-11.8 250 92.1 88.2-94.8
65+ 239 24 7.6 4.8-11.9 215 92.4 88.1-95.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 308 32 5.8 4.0- 8.4 276 94.2 91.6-96.0
Some Post-H.S. 218 15 4.3 2.3- 7.8 203 95.7 92.2-97.7
College Graduate 228 *** *** *** 220 96.6 92.3-98.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 306 35 7.8 5.3-11.2 271 92.2 88.8-94.7
$50,000+ 268 13 3.7 2.0- 6.7 255 96.3 93.3-98.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 166 *** *** *** 159 98.1 95.6-99.2

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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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