2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

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 2 552 85 13.0 10.2-16.5 467 87.0 83.5-89.8
GENDER
Male 244 40 13.5 9.4-19.1 204 86.5 80.9-90.6
Female 308 45 12.6 9.1-17.2 263 87.4 82.8-90.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 402 70 14.5 11.1-18.7 332 85.5 81.3-88.9
Non-Hispanic Black 99 13 12.5 6.6-22.4 86 87.5 77.6-93.4
Other 51 *** *** *** 49 96.9 85.5-99.4
AGE
18-44 162 19 11.2 6.7-18.0 143 88.8 82.0-93.3
45-64 205 32 13.3 9.2-18.7 173 86.7 81.3-90.8
65+ 175 33 16.7 11.2-24.2 142 83.3 75.8-88.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 204 40 16.0 11.4-22.1 164 84.0 77.9-88.6
Some Post-H.S. 170 26 12.9 8.2-19.7 144 87.1 80.3-91.8
College Graduate 175 19 8.2 4.9-13.3 156 91.8 86.7-95.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 229 48 18.7 13.7-25.1 181 81.3 74.9-86.3
$50,000+ 212 18 6.2 3.6-10.5 194 93.8 89.5-96.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 111 19 14.5 8.5-23.7 92 85.5 76.3-91.5

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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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