2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 742 66 9.7 7.1-13.1 676 90.3 86.9-92.9
GENDER
Male 349 21 6.1 3.7- 9.9 328 93.9 90.1-96.3
Female 393 45 13.1 8.6-19.3 348 86.9 80.7-91.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 531 54 11.8 8.4-16.4 477 88.2 83.6-91.6
Non-Hispanic Black 116 *** *** *** 106 91.1 82.2-95.8
Other 82 *** *** *** 82 100 . - .
AGE
18-44 262 *** *** *** 254 96.2 91.5-98.3
45-64 261 31 15.1 9.2-23.6 230 84.9 76.4-90.8
65+ 205 27 14.1 8.9-21.6 178 85.9 78.4-91.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 236 29 13.6 8.5-20.9 207 86.4 79.1-91.5
Some Post-H.S. 220 29 10.1 6.4-15.5 191 89.9 84.5-93.6
College Graduate 286 *** *** *** 278 97.0 93.8-98.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 266 38 12.6 8.7-17.9 228 87.4 82.1-91.3
$50,000+ 309 14 5.1 3.0- 8.6 295 94.9 91.4-97.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 164 14 12.3 6.0-23.7 150 87.7 76.3-94.0

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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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