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2010 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Prostate Cancer Screening (Males, Age 40+)

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,565 2,971 78.4 76.3-80.5 594 21.6 19.5-23.7
COUNTY/REGIONS
Alamance 97 81 79.0 66.9-87.6 16 21.0 12.4-33.1
Buncombe 82 68 72.5 57.0-84.0 14 27.5 16.0-43.0
Cabarrus 92 75 71.9 57.7-82.8 17 28.1 17.2-42.3
Catawba 106 88 81.4 70.1-89.1 18 18.6 10.9-29.9
Cumberland 69 54 76.0 61.6-86.2 15 24.0 13.8-38.4
Davidson 94 74 66.7 53.3-77.9 20 33.3 22.1-46.7
Durham 152 124 67.6 55.3-77.8 28 32.4 22.2-44.7
Forsyth 91 80 79.0 64.4-88.6 11 21.0 11.4-35.6
Gaston 81 62 77.8 65.3-86.7 19 22.2 13.3-34.7
Guilford 220 190 81.9 74.0-87.8 30 18.1 12.2-26.0
Iredell 112 103 90.9 82.1-95.6 9 9.1 4.4-17.9
Johnston 81 63 74.1 61.4-83.7 18 25.9 16.3-38.6
Mecklenburg 159 133 82.6 75.0-88.3 26 17.4 11.7-25.0
New Hanover 99 81 76.6 64.3-85.6 18 23.4 14.4-35.7
Onslow 79 71 87.1 74.8-93.9 8 12.9 6.1-25.2
Orange 89 74 81.8 70.8-89.3 15 18.2 10.7-29.2
Pitt 102 90 80.6 62.6-91.1 12 19.4 8.9-37.4
Randolph 129 105 74.4 62.8-83.4 24 25.6 16.6-37.2
Robeson 74 59 72.0 56.7-83.5 15 28.0 16.5-43.3
Rowan 117 98 81.2 70.5-88.6 19 18.8 11.4-29.5
Union 119 107 88.0 79.5-93.3 12 12.0 6.7-20.5
Wake 195 162 76.2 66.8-83.6 33 23.8 16.4-33.2
Wayne 93 75 74.6 61.9-84.2 18 25.4 15.8-38.1
NC REGIONS
Eastern NC 819 673 77.7 72.9-81.8 146 22.3 18.2-27.1
Piedmont 2,119 1,783 79.3 76.6-81.8 336 20.7 18.2-23.4
Western NC 627 515 76.4 71.1-80.9 112 23.6 19.1-28.9
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 434 363 78.1 71.5-83.5 71 21.9 16.5-28.5
Northwest 760 637 78.4 73.8-82.5 123 21.6 17.5-26.2
Charlotte 513 429 81.3 76.6-85.2 84 18.7 14.8-23.4
Greensboro 604 510 82.5 78.2-86.1 94 17.5 13.9-21.8
Southern Regional 255 205 79.5 71.8-85.6 50 20.5 14.4-28.2
Coastal 148 126 86.5 78.0-92.0 22 13.5 8.0-22.0
Wake 484 395 73.3 66.8-79.0 89 26.7 21.0-33.2
Area L 34 24 68.1 47.4-83.5 10 31.9 16.5-52.6
Eastern 333 282 75.8 66.7-83.1 51 24.2 16.9-33.3

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NOTE: For AHEC Regions, results for Area L are least reliable due to small sample size.

^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.

Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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