2023 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 4,073 322 7.0 6.0- 8.2 3,751 93.0 91.8-94.0
Medicaid Region 3 526 39 6.6 4.3-10.0 487 93.4 90.0-95.7
GENDER
Male 251 16 4.0 2.2- 6.9 235 96.0 93.1-97.8
Female 275 23 9.1 5.2-15.3 252 90.9 84.7-94.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 297 26 7.1 4.4-11.3 271 92.9 88.7-95.6
Non-Hispanic Black 116 11 7.0 3.5-13.5 105 93.0 86.5-96.5
Other 101 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 211 *** *** *** 210 98.1 87.5-99.7
45-64 169 15 8.2 4.5-14.5 154 91.8 85.5-95.5
65+ 135 23 16.0 9.6-25.5 112 84.0 74.5-90.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 151 16 9.6 4.7-18.6 135 90.4 81.4-95.3
Some Post-H.S. 143 11 5.5 2.8-10.6 132 94.5 89.4-97.2
College Graduate 227 12 4.6 2.4- 8.8 215 95.4 91.2-97.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 155 16 8.3 4.4-15.0 139 91.7 85.0-95.6
$50,000+ 244 *** *** *** 234 95.7 89.4-98.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 120 12 9.5 4.7-18.1 108 90.5 81.9-95.3

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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