2024 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?

View results for a demographic group:
 Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  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 6 481 45 8.2 5.9-11.3 436 91.8 88.7-94.1
GENDER
Male 216 21 8.1 4.9-13.0 195 91.9 87.0-95.1
Female 265 24 8.3 5.4-12.8 241 91.7 87.2-94.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 316 29 7.8 5.1-11.7 287 92.2 88.3-94.9
Non-Hispanic Black 101 14 10.9 6.1-18.6 87 89.1 81.4-93.9
Other 61 *** *** *** 59 95.0 82.0-98.8
AGE
18-44 171 *** *** *** 166 97.5 93.8-99.0
45-64 159 16 10.8 6.3-17.9 143 89.2 82.1-93.7
65+ 146 24 16.2 10.3-24.6 122 83.8 75.4-89.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 164 19 9.5 5.8-15.2 145 90.5 84.8-94.2
Some Post-H.S. 137 17 9.7 5.7-16.1 120 90.3 83.9-94.3
College Graduate 177 *** *** *** 169 95.9 90.7-98.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 149 27 15.4 10.2-22.7 122 84.6 77.3-89.8
$50,000+ 207 *** *** *** 200 96.4 92.0-98.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 118 11 7.8 3.9-15.3 107 92.2 84.7-96.1

Back to Chronic Health Conditions.

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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 18SEP25.

SCHS Home | FAQs | Contacts