2022 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 4,491 352 7.6 6.5- 8.9 4,139 92.4 91.1-93.5
Medicaid Region 2 638 55 11.0 7.1-16.6 583 89.0 83.4-92.9
GENDER
Male 307 27 8.0 5.0-12.5 280 92.0 87.5-95.0
Female 331 28 13.7 7.4-24.0 303 86.3 76.0-92.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 430 39 12.9 7.6-20.9 391 87.1 79.1-92.4
Non-Hispanic Black 107 *** *** *** 97 92.3 84.8-96.3
Other 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 204 *** *** *** 198 95.9 89.1-98.5
45-64 237 16 8.0 3.1-19.1 221 92.0 80.9-96.9
65+ 179 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 191 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 183 18 7.1 4.1-12.0 165 92.9 88.0-95.9
College Graduate 261 *** *** *** 251 97.4 94.8-98.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 211 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 256 *** *** *** 250 98.0 95.1-99.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 165 18 13.9 7.0-25.7 147 86.1 74.3-93.0

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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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