2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 658 94 13.8 11.0-17.3 564 86.2 82.7-89.0
GENDER
Male 295 44 14.3 10.2-19.7 251 85.7 80.3-89.8
Female 363 50 13.5 9.8-18.2 313 86.5 81.8-90.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 387 54 12.9 9.5-17.4 333 87.1 82.6-90.5
Non-Hispanic Black 165 25 16.3 10.5-24.4 140 83.7 75.6-89.5
Other 106 15 13.0 7.4-21.7 91 87.0 78.3-92.6
AGE
18-44 237 28 12.2 8.2-17.9 209 87.8 82.1-91.8
45-64 239 30 12.9 8.8-18.6 209 87.1 81.4-91.2
65+ 171 35 19.7 13.1-28.6 136 80.3 71.4-86.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 219 41 17.6 12.5-24.1 178 82.4 75.9-87.5
Some Post-H.S. 146 25 16.1 10.3-24.4 121 83.9 75.6-89.7
College Graduate 292 28 8.5 5.5-12.9 264 91.5 87.1-94.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 249 49 21.2 15.8-27.7 200 78.8 72.3-84.2
$50,000+ 281 21 6.3 3.8-10.1 260 93.7 89.9-96.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 128 24 17.6 10.6-27.8 104 82.4 72.2-89.4

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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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