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2014 BRFSS Asthma Call-Back Survey Prevalence Tables
TABLE 4b. Estimated percent reporting an asthma attack or episode in the past year among adults1 with active2 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 | 229 | 130 | 62.1 | 7.4 | (47.6 – 76.6) | 74 | 22.5 | 5.6 | (11.5 – 33.5) | 25 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Florida | 228 | 122 | 58.1 | 6.4 | (45.6 – 70.6) | 73 | 34.2 | 6.4 | (21.7 – 46.7) | 33 | 7.7 | 2.0 | (3.8 – 11.6) |
| Kansas | 273 | 147 | 51.1 | 6.3 | (38.8 – 63.4) | 98 | 35.0 | 5.7 | (23.8 – 46.2) | 28 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Louisiana | 107 | 48 | 44.9 | 10.4 | (24.5 – 65.3) | 47 | 40.8 | 10.3 | (20.6 – 61.0) | 12 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Massachusetts | 140 | 70 | 57.5 | 7.8 | (42.2 – 72.8) | 63 | 40.8 | 7.8 | (25.5 – 56.1) | 7 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| 5 state total | 977 | 517 | 56.8 | 3.8 | (49.4 – 64.2) | 355 | 34.4 | 3.7 | (27.1 – 41.7) | 105 | 8.8 | 1.8 | (5.3 – 12.3) |
| Median | 57.5 | 35.0 | 7.7 | ||||||||||
| Range | 44.9-62.1 | 22.5-40.8 | 7.7-7.7 | ||||||||||
1 Aged ≥ 18 years
2 Reported any of the following during the past year: asthma medication use, asthma symptoms, or MD visits for 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