AFC PREVALENCE TABLE 4B

TABLE 4b. Estimated percent reporting an asthma attack or episode in the past year among children1 with active2 asthma by state/territory – BRFSS Asthma Call-back Survey, United States, 2012-2014
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
Connecticut 168 89 54.1 5.6 (43.1 – 64.6) 36 21.6 4.7 (13.9 – 32.1) 43 24.3 4.4 (16.8 – 33.8)
Hawaii 125 51 35.4 6.0 (24.7 – 47.8) 53 48.8 6.4 (36.6 – 61.2) 21 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Kansas 233 106 44.7 4.6 (36.0 – 53.7) 86 39.6 4.9 (30.5 – 49.5) 41 15.7 3.0 (10.8 – 22.4)
Louisiana 78 36 52.2 6.7 (39.2 – 65.0) 31 38.0 6.6 (26.1 – 51.5) 11 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Maine 95 45 57.0 5.9 (45.2 – 68.0) 30 25.3 4.9 (16.8 – 36.1) 20 17.7 4.5 (10.5 – 28.3)
Maryland 205 88 42.3 4.6 (33.6 – 51.6) 78 37.7 4.9 (28.6 – 47.7) 39 20.0 4.0 (13.2 – 29.0)
Massachusetts 65 28 53.2 10.3 (33.5 – 71.9) 23 31.9 9.1 (17.1 – 51.6) 14 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Michigan 294 171 55.6 3.5 (48.7 – 62.4) 80 32.3 3.4 (25.9 – 39.3) 43 12.1 2.1 (8.5 – 16.9)
Mississippi 165 78 48.9 5.4 (38.6 – 59.4) 69 43.5 5.4 (33.3 – 54.3) 18 7.6 2.1 (4.3 – 13.0)
Missouri 111 57 54.1 6.6 (41.1 – 66.5) 40 36.8 6.5 (25.2 – 50.3) 14 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Montana 146 72 46.8 5.5 (36.4 – 57.5) 50 37.2 5.4 (27.3 – 48.3) 24 15.9 4.2 (9.3 – 26.0)
Nebraska 290 149 52.0 4.4 (43.4 – 60.4) 103 33.9 4.1 (26.3 – 42.4) 38 14.1 3.2 (8.9 – 21.6)
New Hampshire 111 52 46.1 7.0 (33.0 – 59.7) 36 30.9 6.5 (19.8 – 44.7) 23 23.1 6.7 (12.6 – 38.5)
New Jersey 293 147 50.9 4.1 (42.9 – 59.0) 95 29.7 3.6 (23.2 – 37.1) 51 19.4 3.7 (13.1 – 27.6)
New Mexico 146 68 50.7 5.5 (39.9 – 61.3) 51 35.6 5.2 (26.1 – 46.4) 27 13.7 3.0 (8.9 – 20.6)
New York 79 42 53.7 7.9 (38.3 – 68.3) 21 31.1 8.0 (17.9 – 48.5) 16 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Ohio 166 75 49.6 5.5 (38.9 – 60.3) 52 28.2 4.3 (20.6 – 37.4) 39 22.2 4.5 (14.6 – 32.2)
Oklahoma 126 87 77.1 4.0 (68.3 – 84.0) 29 18.0 3.7 (11.8 – 26.3) 10 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Oregon 66 34 57.5 7.0 (43.6 – 70.3) 21 28.8 6.3 (18.1 – 42.6) 11 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Pennsylvania 256 120 52.1 4.4 (43.5 – 60.7) 82 31.8 4.1 (24.3 – 40.3) 54 16.1 2.9 (11.2 – 22.6)
Rhode Island 85 39 47.7 9.9 (29.5 – 66.5) 30 32.8 7.8 (19.7 – 49.4) 16 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Texas 220 106 47.2 5.2 (37.3 – 57.2) 77 34.3 4.4 (26.2 – 43.5) 37 18.5 3.8 (12.1 – 27.1)
Utah 331 175 53.5 3.5 (46.6 – 60.3) 99 30.6 3.1 (24.9 – 37.1) 57 15.9 2.6 (11.4 – 21.6)
Washington 156 73 44.3 5.1 (34.6 – 54.5) 50 33.6 4.7 (25.1 – 43.3) 33 22.1 4.1 (15.0 – 31.2)
West Virginia 118 55 40.3 5.3 (30.4 – 51.0) 38 34.9 5.3 (25.3 – 45.9) 25 24.8 4.9 (16.4 – 35.7)
Wisconsin 103 49 43.8 6.3 (32.0 – 56.3) 34 39.5 6.8 (27.2 – 53.4) 20 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
26 state total 4,231 2,092 50.9 1.6 (47.7 – 54.0) 1,394 32.7 1.5 (29.9 – 35.7) 745 16.4 1.1 (14.4 – 18.6)
Median 50.8 33.2 17.7
Range 35.4-77.1 18.0-48.8 7.6-24.8

1 Aged < 18 years

2 Reported any of the following during the past year: asthma medication use, asthma symptoms, or MD visits for asthma

± Sample size is for multiple years of participation. Responses of “Don’t Know” and “Refused” are excluded.

§ Standard error

Confidence interval

N/A: Estimate not available (N/A) if the relative standard error was > 0.30