2022 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 4,491 352 7.6 6.5- 8.9 4,139 92.4 91.1-93.5
Medicaid Region 3 681 38 6.5 4.5- 9.4 643 93.5 90.6-95.5
GENDER
Male 325 13 5.7 3.1-10.3 312 94.3 89.7-96.9
Female 356 25 7.4 4.7-11.5 331 92.6 88.5-95.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 397 26 7.9 5.1-12.0 371 92.1 88.0-94.9
Non-Hispanic Black 140 *** *** *** 131 92.3 84.2-96.4
Other 128 *** *** *** 125 98.7 95.7-99.6
AGE
18-44 304 *** *** *** 299 97.3 93.1-99.0
45-64 219 15 7.7 4.2-13.5 204 92.3 86.5-95.8
65+ 136 18 16.8 10.0-26.8 118 83.2 73.2-90.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 185 15 9.1 5.2-15.5 170 90.9 84.5-94.8
Some Post-H.S. 195 19 8.6 4.9-14.5 176 91.4 85.5-95.1
College Graduate 296 *** *** *** 292 98.0 94.2-99.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 204 24 12.7 8.1-19.3 180 87.3 80.7-91.9
$50,000+ 302 *** *** *** 296 97.0 92.6-98.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 156 *** *** *** 149 94.4 86.9-97.7

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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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