2023 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 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 5 977 158 16.1 12.9-19.9 819 83.9 80.1-87.1
GENDER
Male 411 49 10.5 7.3-14.8 362 89.5 85.2-92.7
Female 566 109 21.4 16.4-27.5 457 78.6 72.5-83.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 412 64 15.0 11.1-20.0 348 85.0 80.0-88.9
Non-Hispanic Black 165 29 18.3 11.6-27.6 136 81.7 72.4-88.4
Other 386 62 16.3 9.5-26.6 324 83.7 73.4-90.5
AGE
18-44 322 57 17.9 12.9-24.2 265 82.1 75.8-87.1
45-64 346 48 11.2 7.0-17.5 298 88.8 82.5-93.0
65+ 294 51 16.9 11.4-24.5 243 83.1 75.5-88.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 320 61 18.2 12.7-25.5 259 81.8 74.5-87.3
Some Post-H.S. 303 47 15.5 10.6-22.2 256 84.5 77.8-89.4
College Graduate 351 49 12.9 8.7-18.6 302 87.1 81.4-91.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 360 80 22.8 16.5-30.8 280 77.2 69.2-83.5
$50,000+ 394 46 11.6 7.8-16.7 348 88.4 83.3-92.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 214 31 13.9 8.5-22.1 183 86.1 77.9-91.5

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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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