2021 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 4,929 648 13.7 12.5-15.0 4,281 86.3 85.0-87.5
Medicaid Region 5 1,187 161 14.6 12.1-17.5 1,026 85.4 82.5-87.9
GENDER
Male 525 57 13.3 9.7-18.0 468 86.7 82.0-90.3
Female 662 104 15.8 12.7-19.6 558 84.2 80.4-87.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 658 83 15.0 11.7-19.0 575 85.0 81.0-88.3
Non-Hispanic Black 270 45 16.9 12.0-23.2 225 83.1 76.8-88.0
Other 243 30 9.5 5.7-15.4 213 90.5 84.6-94.3
AGE
18-44 374 59 15.5 11.5-20.5 315 84.5 79.5-88.5
45-64 357 48 15.2 11.0-20.7 309 84.8 79.3-89.0
65+ 427 52 13.0 9.2-17.9 375 87.0 82.1-90.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 433 65 16.2 12.1-21.4 368 83.8 78.6-87.9
Some Post-H.S. 346 52 15.9 11.7-21.3 294 84.1 78.7-88.3
College Graduate 403 43 9.8 7.0-13.6 360 90.2 86.4-93.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 469 77 17.9 13.8-22.7 392 82.1 77.3-86.2
$50,000+ 444 50 12.3 8.5-17.5 394 87.7 82.5-91.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 271 34 13.4 9.1-19.4 237 86.6 80.6-90.9

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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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