2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 1 608 51 8.8 6.4-11.9 557 91.2 88.1-93.6
GENDER
Male 277 21 8.3 5.2-13.0 256 91.7 87.0-94.8
Female 331 30 9.2 6.0-13.9 301 90.8 86.1-94.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 496 45 9.7 6.9-13.3 451 90.3 86.7-93.1
Non-Hispanic Black 34 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 71 *** *** *** 68 96.1 84.6-99.1
AGE
18-44 158 *** *** *** 152 95.5 89.7-98.1
45-64 191 16 8.7 5.0-14.6 175 91.3 85.4-95.0
65+ 252 29 14.6 9.7-21.4 223 85.4 78.6-90.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 184 22 12.8 8.2-19.4 162 87.2 80.6-91.8
Some Post-H.S. 176 22 10.5 6.4-16.8 154 89.5 83.2-93.6
College Graduate 246 *** *** *** 239 98.4 96.2-99.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 211 24 11.3 7.0-17.7 187 88.7 82.3-93.0
$50,000+ 242 *** *** *** 232 95.1 90.7-97.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 149 17 12.5 7.3-20.8 132 87.5 79.2-92.7

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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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