2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 987 90 6.9 5.2- 9.2 897 93.1 90.8-94.8
GENDER
Male 465 35 6.2 3.8- 9.9 430 93.8 90.1-96.2
Female 522 55 7.6 5.4-10.6 467 92.4 89.4-94.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 516 52 7.0 5.0- 9.7 464 93.0 90.3-95.0
Non-Hispanic Black 186 15 7.6 3.7-15.1 171 92.4 84.9-96.3
Other 259 20 5.2 2.4-10.9 239 94.8 89.1-97.6
AGE
18-44 352 *** *** *** 347 99.1 97.3-99.7
45-64 325 39 11.2 7.0-17.4 286 88.8 82.6-93.0
65+ 296 46 13.2 9.2-18.6 250 86.8 81.4-90.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 344 39 6.9 4.5-10.5 305 93.1 89.5-95.5
Some Post-H.S. 323 31 7.4 4.5-12.1 292 92.6 87.9-95.5
College Graduate 318 20 6.1 3.5-10.3 298 93.9 89.7-96.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 373 42 8.6 5.4-13.4 331 91.4 86.6-94.6
$50,000+ 386 23 4.8 2.9- 8.0 363 95.2 92.0-97.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 219 25 8.3 5.0-13.6 194 91.7 86.4-95.0

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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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