2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 713 126 18.2 14.5-22.7 587 81.8 77.3-85.5
GENDER
Male 315 59 21.4 15.3-29.0 256 78.6 71.0-84.7
Female 398 67 15.4 11.4-20.5 331 84.6 79.5-88.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 441 75 16.8 12.8-21.8 366 83.2 78.2-87.2
Non-Hispanic Black 203 44 23.8 15.8-34.1 159 76.2 65.9-84.2
Other 69 *** *** *** 62 90.9 80.5-96.1
AGE
18-44 192 37 22.2 15.2-31.4 155 77.8 68.6-84.8
45-64 267 42 14.6 10.2-20.4 225 85.4 79.6-89.8
65+ 245 46 17.3 12.1-24.2 199 82.7 75.8-87.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 283 59 21.4 15.7-28.4 224 78.6 71.6-84.3
Some Post-H.S. 218 42 18.6 12.1-27.4 176 81.4 72.6-87.9
College Graduate 211 25 11.2 6.9-17.5 186 88.8 82.5-93.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 357 83 23.2 18.0-29.5 274 76.8 70.5-82.0
$50,000+ 221 22 14.1 7.6-24.8 199 85.9 75.2-92.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 135 21 13.0 7.8-20.9 114 87.0 79.1-92.2

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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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