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 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 5 976 79 6.5 4.6- 9.1 897 93.5 90.9-95.4
GENDER
Male 411 31 5.6 3.4- 9.2 380 94.4 90.8-96.6
Female 565 48 7.3 4.5-11.5 517 92.7 88.5-95.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 411 31 6.7 4.1-10.7 380 93.3 89.3-95.9
Non-Hispanic Black 165 22 8.9 5.1-15.0 143 91.1 85.0-94.9
Other 386 26 3.5 1.3- 9.1 360 96.5 90.9-98.7
AGE
18-44 322 *** *** *** 313 97.3 93.8-98.9
45-64 346 27 8.5 4.6-15.4 319 91.5 84.6-95.4
65+ 293 43 11.7 7.5-17.9 250 88.3 82.1-92.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 319 33 7.2 4.1-12.1 286 92.8 87.9-95.9
Some Post-H.S. 303 28 6.0 3.2-11.0 275 94.0 89.0-96.8
College Graduate 351 17 5.2 2.6-10.2 334 94.8 89.8-97.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 360 44 7.1 4.1-12.0 316 92.9 88.0-95.9
$50,000+ 394 18 5.7 3.1-10.3 376 94.3 89.7-96.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 213 17 7.0 3.5-13.4 196 93.0 86.6-96.5

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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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