2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 4,491 352 7.6 6.5- 8.9 4,139 92.4 91.1-93.5
Medicaid Region 1 501 56 9.7 7.0-13.5 445 90.3 86.5-93.0
GENDER
Male 229 27 9.9 5.9-16.3 202 90.1 83.7-94.1
Female 272 29 9.5 6.2-14.5 243 90.5 85.5-93.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 427 50 10.8 7.6-15.1 377 89.2 84.9-92.4
Non-Hispanic Black 21 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 46 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 130 *** *** *** 126 97.5 92.6-99.2
45-64 178 14 7.9 4.2-14.4 164 92.1 85.6-95.8
65+ 180 37 21.9 14.5-31.7 143 78.1 68.3-85.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 149 19 11.1 6.2-19.2 130 88.9 80.8-93.8
Some Post-H.S. 145 21 11.0 6.6-17.7 124 89.0 82.3-93.4
College Graduate 207 16 6.3 3.5-11.1 191 93.7 88.9-96.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 194 33 14.3 9.0-22.1 161 85.7 77.9-91.0
$50,000+ 212 14 5.7 3.3- 9.9 198 94.3 90.1-96.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 92 *** *** *** 83 92.0 84.2-96.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2022 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2022 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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