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 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 4 958 57 4.6 3.2- 6.5 901 95.4 93.5-96.8
GENDER
Male 440 16 3.7 1.8- 7.7 424 96.3 92.3-98.2
Female 518 41 5.4 3.7- 7.7 477 94.6 92.3-96.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 571 34 5.0 3.1- 8.2 537 95.0 91.8-96.9
Non-Hispanic Black 184 16 6.4 3.5-11.4 168 93.6 88.6-96.5
Other 187 *** *** *** 180 98.6 96.7-99.4
AGE
18-44 378 *** *** *** 370 97.3 93.1-98.9
45-64 310 12 3.1 1.6- 6.0 298 96.9 94.0-98.4
65+ 258 37 11.5 7.6-16.9 221 88.5 83.1-92.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 232 18 3.9 2.3- 6.5 214 96.1 93.5-97.7
Some Post-H.S. 213 21 8.6 4.7-15.2 192 91.4 84.8-95.3
College Graduate 508 18 2.5 1.4- 4.6 490 97.5 95.4-98.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 243 31 8.9 5.9-13.2 212 91.1 86.8-94.1
$50,000+ 526 15 2.7 1.2- 6.0 511 97.3 94.0-98.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 180 *** *** *** 170 95.7 90.1-98.2

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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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