2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had asthma?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 5,823 721 12.3 11.3-13.4 5,102 87.7 86.6-88.7
Medicaid Region 5 1,399 178 13.7 11.5-16.2 1,221 86.3 83.8-88.5
GENDER
Male 621 61 9.5 7.0-12.7 560 90.5 87.3-93.0
Female 778 117 17.6 14.3-21.5 661 82.4 78.5-85.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 811 95 13.4 10.7-16.7 716 86.6 83.3-89.3
Non-Hispanic Black 319 50 17.3 12.4-23.5 269 82.7 76.5-87.6
Other 269 33 9.9 6.4-15.1 236 90.1 84.9-93.6
AGE
18-44 455 63 15.2 11.6-19.7 392 84.8 80.3-88.4
45-64 461 62 13.6 10.2-17.9 399 86.4 82.1-89.8
65+ 445 51 10.7 7.7-14.5 394 89.3 85.5-92.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 519 73 13.9 10.6-18.1 446 86.1 81.9-89.4
Some Post-H.S. 406 56 14.9 11.1-19.7 350 85.1 80.3-88.9
College Graduate 463 49 12.0 8.5-16.6 414 88.0 83.4-91.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 610 95 16.4 12.9-20.6 515 83.6 79.4-87.1
$50,000+ 483 57 12.8 9.4-17.1 426 87.2 82.9-90.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 276 23 9.7 6.1-15.1 253 90.3 84.9-93.9

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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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