2021 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 4,916 371 7.6 6.7- 8.6 4,545 92.4 91.4-93.3
Medicaid Region 6 663 51 6.6 4.8- 9.0 612 93.4 91.0-95.2
GENDER
Male 295 16 4.4 2.5- 7.7 279 95.6 92.3-97.5
Female 368 35 8.8 6.0-12.6 333 91.2 87.4-94.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 410 32 6.2 4.2- 9.1 378 93.8 90.9-95.8
Non-Hispanic Black 146 15 9.3 5.4-15.7 131 90.7 84.3-94.6
Other 90 *** *** *** 87 97.8 93.0-99.3
AGE
18-44 219 *** *** *** 215 98.2 95.2-99.4
45-64 218 17 9.4 5.5-15.7 201 90.6 84.3-94.5
65+ 207 29 12.5 8.5-18.1 178 87.5 81.9-91.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 237 22 6.9 4.3-10.8 215 93.1 89.2-95.7
Some Post-H.S. 185 21 8.2 5.0-13.3 164 91.8 86.7-95.0
College Graduate 234 *** *** *** 226 96.3 91.7-98.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 252 34 10.7 7.3-15.3 218 89.3 84.7-92.7
$50,000+ 251 *** *** *** 243 97.8 95.0-99.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 157 *** *** *** 148 93.1 86.0-96.8

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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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