2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 753 54 6.7 4.9- 9.1 699 93.3 90.9-95.1
GENDER
Male 363 24 6.2 3.9-10.0 339 93.8 90.0-96.1
Female 390 30 7.1 4.8-10.5 360 92.9 89.5-95.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 477 34 6.1 4.2- 8.8 443 93.9 91.2-95.8
Non-Hispanic Black 135 13 10.1 5.4-17.9 122 89.9 82.1-94.6
Other 123 *** *** *** 117 95.7 88.5-98.5
AGE
18-44 302 *** *** *** 294 96.7 92.9-98.5
45-64 233 18 8.4 5.1-13.5 215 91.6 86.5-94.9
65+ 193 28 13.6 9.0-19.9 165 86.4 80.1-91.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 230 26 10.2 6.6-15.4 204 89.8 84.6-93.4
Some Post-H.S. 204 13 5.7 3.2-10.0 191 94.3 90.0-96.8
College Graduate 315 14 3.1 1.8- 5.5 301 96.9 94.5-98.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 228 24 9.4 6.1-14.4 204 90.6 85.6-93.9
$50,000+ 359 13 4.6 2.5- 8.6 346 95.4 91.4-97.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 160 14 6.5 3.6-11.6 146 93.5 88.4-96.4

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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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