2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had asthma?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,079 637 14.8 13.3-16.5 3,442 85.2 83.5-86.7
Medicaid Region 4 959 163 16.2 13.4-19.4 796 83.8 80.6-86.6
GENDER
Male 440 59 12.6 9.4-16.8 381 87.4 83.2-90.6
Female 519 104 19.5 15.3-24.5 415 80.5 75.5-84.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 571 97 17.0 13.4-21.3 474 83.0 78.7-86.6
Non-Hispanic Black 184 37 19.1 12.7-27.8 147 80.9 72.2-87.3
Other 188 28 12.0 7.7-18.2 160 88.0 81.8-92.3
AGE
18-44 378 58 16.1 11.8-21.5 320 83.9 78.5-88.2
45-64 310 53 15.8 11.4-21.6 257 84.2 78.4-88.6
65+ 259 49 17.0 12.3-23.0 210 83.0 77.0-87.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 234 39 14.9 9.8-21.9 195 85.1 78.1-90.2
Some Post-H.S. 213 39 17.5 12.0-24.9 174 82.5 75.1-88.0
College Graduate 507 85 16.6 13.2-20.6 422 83.4 79.4-86.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 244 53 20.6 15.2-27.3 191 79.4 72.7-84.8
$50,000+ 526 88 16.6 12.7-21.4 438 83.4 78.6-87.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 180 22 10.6 6.5-16.8 158 89.4 83.2-93.5

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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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