2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 1 506 44 9.1 6.1-13.4 462 90.9 86.6-93.9
GENDER
Male 211 14 7.9 4.2-14.4 197 92.1 85.6-95.8
Female 295 30 10.3 6.0-17.0 265 89.7 83.0-94.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 414 35 9.7 6.4-14.4 379 90.3 85.6-93.6
Non-Hispanic Black 26 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 62 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 122 *** *** *** 117 94.4 86.7-97.8
45-64 166 15 9.3 4.0-19.9 151 90.7 80.1-96.0
65+ 208 24 13.7 8.1-22.4 184 86.3 77.6-91.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 141 19 13.1 7.1-22.8 122 86.9 77.2-92.9
Some Post-H.S. 157 15 6.5 3.1-12.9 142 93.5 87.1-96.9
College Graduate 206 *** *** *** 196 93.6 85.8-97.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 172 25 16.6 9.9-26.3 147 83.4 73.7-90.1
$50,000+ 207 *** *** *** 197 96.4 92.4-98.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 120 *** *** *** 112 96.3 91.2-98.5

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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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