2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

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
Region 5 634 43 6.8 4.8- 9.5 591 93.2 90.5-95.2
GENDER
Male 272 14 4.3 2.4- 7.7 258 95.7 92.3-97.6
Female 362 29 9.1 6.0-13.5 333 90.9 86.5-94.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 369 29 7.6 5.0-11.5 340 92.4 88.5-95.0
Non-Hispanic Black 122 *** *** *** 114 93.6 86.6-97.0
Other 136 *** *** *** 130 95.5 89.3-98.2
AGE
18-44 263 *** *** *** 256 96.6 92.4-98.5
45-64 197 12 5.8 3.0-11.1 185 94.2 88.9-97.0
65+ 164 24 15.4 9.9-23.1 140 84.6 76.9-90.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 188 19 10.2 6.1-16.5 169 89.8 83.5-93.9
Some Post-H.S. 156 17 8.1 4.7-13.6 139 91.9 86.4-95.3
College Graduate 286 *** *** *** 279 98.0 95.4-99.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 198 18 8.6 5.1-13.9 180 91.4 86.1-94.9
$50,000+ 275 *** *** *** 265 97.3 94.5-98.7
Don't know/Not Sure 154 15 13.2 7.5-22.2 139 86.8 77.8-92.5

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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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