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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

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