2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 579 55 8.6 6.0-12.1 524 91.4 87.9-94.0
GENDER
Male 249 17 7.0 3.8-12.5 232 93.0 87.5-96.2
Female 330 38 10.0 6.5-15.1 292 90.0 84.9-93.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 410 43 10.0 6.8-14.5 367 90.0 85.5-93.2
Non-Hispanic Black 85 *** *** *** 81 96.0 84.5-99.0
Other 76 *** *** *** 68 90.8 77.9-96.5
AGE
18-44 184 *** *** *** 179 97.8 94.7-99.1
45-64 204 17 10.7 5.9-18.7 187 89.3 81.3-94.1
65+ 180 32 18.0 11.3-27.5 148 82.0 72.5-88.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 187 22 10.9 6.6-17.5 165 89.1 82.5-93.4
Some Post-H.S. 142 16 9.9 5.3-17.8 126 90.1 82.2-94.7
College Graduate 246 16 3.4 1.7- 6.7 230 96.6 93.3-98.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 186 25 11.2 6.7-18.0 161 88.8 82.0-93.3
$50,000+ 246 13 6.4 3.2-12.4 233 93.6 87.6-96.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 139 15 8.7 4.3-16.8 124 91.3 83.2-95.7

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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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