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2014 BRFSS Asthma Call-Back Survey Prevalence Tables
TABLE 4a. Estimated percent reporting an asthma attack or episode in the past year among adults1 with current2 asthma by state/territory – BRFSS Asthma Call-back Survey Land Line Sample, United States, 2014
| State/Territory | Sample size± |
Attack in past year | No attack in past year | No symptoms in past year | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample size |
% | SE§ | 95% CI† | Sample size |
% | SE | 95% CI | Sample size |
% | SE | 95% CI | ||
| Alabama | 215 | 121 | 62.9 | 7.8 | (47.6 – 78.2) | 67 | 22.3 | 5.9 | (10.7 – 33.9) | 27 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Florida | 213 | 117 | 57.9 | 6.4 | (45.4 – 70.4) | 62 | 29.3 | 6.2 | (17.1 – 41.5) | 34 | 12.8 | 3.8 | (5.4 – 20.2) |
| Kansas | 259 | 141 | 51.2 | 6.4 | (38.7 – 63.7) | 88 | 32.9 | 5.8 | (21.5 – 44.3) | 30 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Louisiana | 94 | 48 | 53.8 | 11.1 | (32.0 – 75.6) | 38 | 43.6 | 11.1 | (21.8 – 65.4) | 8 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Massachusetts | 138 | 67 | 56.1 | 8.0 | (40.4 – 71.8) | 59 | 34.7 | 6.9 | (21.2 – 48.2) | 12 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| 5 state total | 919 | 494 | 57.5 | 3.8 | (50.1 – 64.9) | 314 | 30.9 | 3.5 | (24.0 – 37.8) | 111 | 11.6 | 2.5 | (6.7 – 16.5) |
| Median | 56.1 | 32.9 | 12.8 | ||||||||||
| Range | 51.2-62.9 | 22.3-43.6 | 12.8-12.8 | ||||||||||
1 Aged ≥ 18 years
2 “Yes” response to “Do you still have asthma?”
± Landline sample size excludes “DK/Refused”
§ Standard error
† Confidence interval
N/A: Estimate not available (N/A) if the unweighted sample size for the denominator was < 50 or if the relative standard error was > 0.30