2021 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 4,916 371 7.6 6.7- 8.6 4,545 92.4 91.4-93.3
Medicaid Region 4 1,051 52 5.2 3.8- 7.0 999 94.8 93.0-96.2
GENDER
Male 514 22 4.1 2.6- 6.5 492 95.9 93.5-97.4
Female 537 30 6.2 4.1- 9.1 507 93.8 90.9-95.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 617 32 5.6 3.8- 8.1 585 94.4 91.9-96.2
Non-Hispanic Black 218 14 6.2 3.5-10.8 204 93.8 89.2-96.5
Other 198 *** *** *** 193 97.5 93.2-99.1
AGE
18-44 461 *** *** *** 452 97.5 95.1-98.8
45-64 340 18 5.6 3.4- 9.0 322 94.4 91.0-96.6
65+ 228 25 11.8 7.5-18.1 203 88.2 81.9-92.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 277 18 6.3 3.8-10.2 259 93.7 89.8-96.2
Some Post-H.S. 218 18 8.3 5.1-13.4 200 91.7 86.6-94.9
College Graduate 549 16 2.1 1.2- 3.6 533 97.9 96.4-98.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 329 23 8.1 5.2-12.3 306 91.9 87.7-94.8
$50,000+ 507 17 3.0 1.8- 5.2 490 97.0 94.8-98.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 211 12 5.8 3.0-10.8 199 94.2 89.2-97.0

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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