2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 615 46 6.9 4.8- 9.8 569 93.1 90.2-95.2
GENDER
Male 278 17 5.0 2.9- 8.7 261 95.0 91.3-97.1
Female 337 29 8.6 5.4-13.3 308 91.4 86.7-94.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 397 38 8.9 6.0-13.0 359 91.1 87.0-94.0
Non-Hispanic Black 103 *** *** *** 99 96.7 90.8-98.9
Other 112 *** *** *** 108 96.7 90.3-98.9
AGE
18-44 215 *** *** *** 207 95.9 91.8-98.0
45-64 201 14 9.1 4.9-16.2 187 90.9 83.8-95.1
65+ 185 24 10.1 6.0-16.5 161 89.9 83.5-94.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 208 21 9.9 5.9-16.0 187 90.1 84.0-94.1
Some Post-H.S. 167 16 6.9 3.8-12.0 151 93.1 88.0-96.2
College Graduate 234 *** *** *** 225 97.0 92.9-98.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 206 24 11.5 7.1-18.2 182 88.5 81.8-92.9
$50,000+ 244 *** *** *** 235 97.1 93.7-98.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 156 13 8.2 4.2-15.4 143 91.8 84.6-95.8

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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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