2013 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, 2013

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 129 84 60.4 9.0 (42.8 – 78.0) 32 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A) 13 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Arizona 102 61 52.1 11.3 (30.0 – 74.2) 26 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A) 15 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
California 166 76 34.8 6.1 (22.8 – 46.8) 74 49.9 7.2 (35.8 – 64.0) 16 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Connecticut 212 111 51.6 6.8 (38.3 – 64.9) 85 42.7 6.9 (29.2 – 56.2) 16 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Florida 722 426 61.7 5.3 (51.3 – 72.1) 226 26.2 4.4 (17.6 – 34.8) 70 12.2 3.6 (5.1 – 19.3)
Georgia 121 64 64.5 7.9 (49.0 – 80.0) 45 31.8 7.8 (16.5 – 47.1) 12 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Hawaii 110 46 50.1 9.8 (30.9 – 69.3) 34 24.8 6.6 (11.9 – 37.7) 30 25.0 7.3 (10.7 – 39.3)
Indiana 318 187 50.5 5.5 (39.7 – 61.3) 94 34.1 5.4 (23.5 – 44.7) 37 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Iowa 208 88 40.2 6.9 (26.7 – 53.7) 90 40.8 7.5 (26.1 – 55.5) 30 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Kansas 622 315 46.9 3.8 (39.5 – 54.3) 237 39.5 3.9 (31.9 – 47.1) 70 13.6 2.6 (8.5 – 18.7)
Kentucky 331 212 56.2 5.3 (45.8 – 66.6) 102 36.1 5.2 (25.9 – 46.3) 17 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Louisiana 121 66 60.1 7.7 (45.0 – 75.2) 42 30.7 7.3 (16.4 – 45.0) 13 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Maine 219 117 51.8 6.0 (40.0 – 63.6) 82 39.1 6.0 (27.3 – 50.9) 20 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Maryland 228 111 49.2 6.1 (37.2 – 61.2) 92 40.6 6.0 (28.8 – 52.4) 25 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Massachusetts 140 69 53.5 9.7 (34.5 – 72.5) 51 29.4 7.3 (15.1 – 43.7) 20 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Michigan 458 257 61.4 4.0 (53.6 – 69.2) 162 31.7 3.8 (24.3 – 39.1) 39 7.0 2.1 (2.9 – 11.1)
Mississippi 211 118 36.5 6.7 (23.4 – 49.6) 81 48.0 8.6 (31.1 – 64.9) 12 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Missouri 211 101 46.3 6.3 (34.0 – 58.6) 95 43.7 6.6 (30.8 – 56.6) 15 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Montana 257 121 45.4 8.1 (29.5 – 61.3) 103 44.5 8.4 (28.0 – 61.0) 33 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Nebraska 264 132 48.6 9.3 (30.4 – 66.8) 107 39.3 8.5 (22.6 – 56.0) 25 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Nevada 99 49 59.0 9.1 (41.2 – 76.8) 39 27.6 6.5 (14.9 – 40.3) 11 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Hampshire 212 103 50.9 6.7 (37.8 – 64.0) 92 34.9 5.9 (23.3 – 46.5) 17 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Jersey 250 113 43.0 6.2 (30.8 – 55.2) 116 44.2 6.2 (32.0 – 56.4) 21 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Mexico 222 115 44.9 6.0 (33.1 – 56.7) 82 42.7 6.0 (30.9 – 54.5) 25 12.5 3.2 (6.2 – 18.8)
New York 110 63 56.7 8.7 (39.6 – 73.8) 35 25.7 7.1 (11.8 – 39.6) 12 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
North Carolina 107 64 67.7 6.7 (54.6 – 80.8) 36 28.3 7.0 (14.6 – 42.0) 7 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Ohio 245 135 52.5 6.2 (40.3 – 64.7) 91 35.4 6.0 (23.6 – 47.2) 19 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Oklahoma 224 119 54.4 5.9 (42.8 – 66.0) 67 27.9 5.1 (17.9 – 37.9) 38 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Oregon 163 98 73.7 5.5 (62.9 – 84.5) 49 18.6 4.6 (9.6 – 27.6) 16 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Pennsylvania 247 128 51.4 6.1 (39.4 – 63.4) 98 42.2 6.3 (29.9 – 54.5) 21 6.4 1.7 (3.1 – 9.7)
Rhode Island 194 88 44.0 7.2 (29.9 – 58.1) 84 42.2 6.7 (29.1 – 55.3) 22 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Texas 210 99 38.1 7.3 (23.8 – 52.4) 90 43.6 7.7 (28.5 – 58.7) 21 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Utah 304 155 53.0 6.3 (40.7 – 65.3) 123 39.8 6.1 (27.8 – 51.8) 26 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Vermont 188 79 43.8 7.0 (30.1 – 57.5) 86 47.0 7.1 (33.1 – 60.9) 23 9.2 2.7 (3.9 – 14.5)
Washington 287 134 42.1 5.6 (31.1 – 53.1) 114 39.9 6.3 (27.6 – 52.2) 39 17.9 5.3 (7.5 – 28.3)
West Virginia 125 68 57.6 5.9 (46.0 – 69.2) 44 34.9 5.7 (23.7 – 46.1) 13 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Wisconsin 189 85 40.7 6.4 (28.2 – 53.2) 81 45.8 7.0 (32.1 – 59.5) 23 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Puerto Rico 205 89 50.1 6.5 (37.4 – 62.8) 97 35.8 5.5 (25.0 – 46.6) 19 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
38 state total 8,731 4,546 50.7 1.7 (47.4 – 54.0) 3,284 36.3 1.6 (33.2 – 39.4) 901 13.0 1.5 (10.1 – 15.9)
Median     51.2       39.2       12.4    
Range     34.8-73.7       18.6-49.9       6.4-25.0    

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