2024 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 4,311 297 6.7 5.8- 7.6 4,014 93.3 92.4-94.2
Medicaid Region 5 582 46 8.2 5.8-11.4 536 91.8 88.6-94.2
GENDER
Male 277 24 9.2 5.9-14.2 253 90.8 85.8-94.1
Female 305 22 7.2 4.2-12.0 283 92.8 88.0-95.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 366 35 9.3 6.4-13.3 331 90.7 86.7-93.6
Non-Hispanic Black 102 *** *** *** 99 97.0 91.1-99.0
Other 105 *** *** *** 98 89.0 75.0-95.6
AGE
18-44 222 *** *** *** 216 97.6 94.5-98.9
45-64 186 17 13.4 7.7-22.3 169 86.6 77.7-92.3
65+ 169 23 13.1 8.4-19.9 146 86.9 80.1-91.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 209 21 9.4 5.7-15.0 188 90.6 85.0-94.3
Some Post-H.S. 163 18 11.3 6.6-18.8 145 88.7 81.2-93.4
College Graduate 208 *** *** *** 201 97.5 94.5-98.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 182 20 12.8 7.8-20.1 162 87.2 79.9-92.2
$50,000+ 267 12 5.4 2.7-10.6 255 94.6 89.4-97.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 127 13 6.6 3.7-11.7 114 93.4 88.3-96.3

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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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