2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 885 62 6.4 4.8- 8.5 823 93.6 91.5-95.2
GENDER
Male 415 24 5.4 3.4- 8.5 391 94.6 91.5-96.6
Female 470 38 7.4 5.1-10.5 432 92.6 89.5-94.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 500 34 6.9 4.7-10.0 466 93.1 90.0-95.3
Non-Hispanic Black 178 18 8.1 4.8-13.3 160 91.9 86.7-95.2
Other 198 *** *** *** 189 97.1 94.0-98.6
AGE
18-44 366 *** *** *** 358 98.1 96.1-99.1
45-64 285 23 8.6 5.4-13.4 262 91.4 86.6-94.6
65+ 212 30 14.4 9.5-21.4 182 85.6 78.6-90.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 254 25 9.7 6.3-14.6 229 90.3 85.4-93.7
Some Post-H.S. 223 15 5.4 3.0- 9.5 208 94.6 90.5-97.0
College Graduate 402 22 4.1 2.5- 6.7 380 95.9 93.3-97.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 245 31 9.9 6.5-14.9 214 90.1 85.1-93.5
$50,000+ 429 18 5.0 3.0- 8.3 411 95.0 91.7-97.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 201 13 5.8 3.2-10.2 188 94.2 89.8-96.8

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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