2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 528 48 7.6 5.2-11.1 480 92.4 88.9-94.8
GENDER
Male 233 20 8.5 4.8-14.5 213 91.5 85.5-95.2
Female 295 28 6.8 4.1-11.1 267 93.2 88.9-95.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 326 36 9.6 6.1-14.6 290 90.4 85.4-93.9
Non-Hispanic Black 122 *** *** *** 114 93.9 86.7-97.3
Other 73 *** *** *** 70 99.0 96.5-99.7
AGE
18-44 178 *** *** *** 173 96.8 89.9-99.0
45-64 177 *** *** *** 167 96.7 93.4-98.3
65+ 172 32 21.1 14.1-30.5 140 78.9 69.5-85.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 174 16 5.8 3.2-10.3 158 94.2 89.7-96.8
Some Post-H.S. 168 23 12.6 7.5-20.4 145 87.4 79.6-92.5
College Graduate 183 *** *** *** 174 97.5 94.6-98.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 187 23 9.9 6.1-15.6 164 90.1 84.4-93.9
$50,000+ 233 16 6.3 3.0-12.9 217 93.7 87.1-97.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 103 *** *** *** 94 93.1 83.7-97.3

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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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