2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Respiratory Health

During the past 3 months, did you cough up phlegm [FLEM] or mucus on most days?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,763 633 16.1 14.6-17.7 3,130 83.9 82.3-85.4
Medicaid Region 1 665 127 19.6 15.7-24.4 538 80.4 75.6-84.3
GENDER
Male 309 48 17.8 12.1-25.6 261 82.2 74.4-87.9
Female 356 79 21.4 16.2-27.7 277 78.6 72.3-83.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 574 109 19.3 15.0-24.4 465 80.7 75.6-85.0
Non-Hispanic Black 29 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 62 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 163 23 16.2 9.6-26.2 140 83.8 73.8-90.4
45-64 234 49 18.4 13.1-25.2 185 81.6 74.8-86.9
65+ 257 54 26.6 19.0-35.9 203 73.4 64.1-81.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 232 52 20.3 14.3-27.8 180 79.7 72.2-85.7
Some Post-H.S. 204 45 23.2 15.5-33.1 159 76.8 66.9-84.5
College Graduate 229 30 13.4 8.6-20.3 199 86.6 79.7-91.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 298 79 27.1 20.6-34.7 219 72.9 65.3-79.4
$50,000+ 232 25 14.9 8.5-24.7 207 85.1 75.3-91.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 135 23 12.2 7.1-20.1 112 87.8 79.9-92.9

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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