2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4,311 297 6.7 5.8- 7.6 4,014 93.3 92.4-94.2
Medicaid Region 4 1,140 47 4.1 3.0- 5.7 1,093 95.9 94.3-97.0
GENDER
Male 509 17 3.2 1.9- 5.4 492 96.8 94.6-98.1
Female 631 30 5.0 3.3- 7.5 601 95.0 92.5-96.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 648 30 4.8 3.2- 7.1 618 95.2 92.9-96.8
Non-Hispanic Black 213 11 4.2 2.1- 8.4 202 95.8 91.6-97.9
Other 265 *** *** *** 259 97.6 94.2-99.1
AGE
18-44 493 *** *** *** 487 98.2 95.6-99.3
45-64 367 16 3.2 1.9- 5.5 351 96.8 94.5-98.1
65+ 256 24 10.4 6.8-15.8 232 89.6 84.2-93.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 316 21 6.0 3.6- 9.8 295 94.0 90.2-96.4
Some Post-H.S. 271 17 5.1 3.0- 8.7 254 94.9 91.3-97.0
College Graduate 549 *** *** *** 540 98.3 96.7-99.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 309 17 4.5 2.6- 7.5 292 95.5 92.5-97.4
$50,000+ 545 15 2.6 1.4- 4.5 530 97.4 95.5-98.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 276 15 7.1 4.0-12.3 261 92.9 87.7-96.0

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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