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2016 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Prostate Cancer Screening (Males, Age 40+)

A Prostate-Specific Antigen test, also called a PSA test, is a blood test used to check men for prostate cancer.

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,923 1,259 62.4 59.7-65.1 664 37.6 34.9-40.3
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Regions 1 & 2 334 219 65.1 58.3-71.4 115 34.9 28.6-41.7
Region 3 169 100 56.2 47.3-64.7 69 43.8 35.3-52.7
Region 4 320 202 59.2 53.0-65.2 118 40.8 34.8-47.0
Region 5 211 153 69.0 61.2-75.9 58 31.0 24.1-38.8
Region 6 149 92 57.0 47.6-65.8 57 43.0 34.2-52.4
Region 7 218 151 66.8 59.2-73.7 67 33.2 26.3-40.8
Region 8 177 114 57.7 48.9-66.0 63 42.3 34.0-51.1
Region 9 149 103 68.9 59.5-77.0 46 31.1 23.0-40.5
Region 10 197 125 61.0 52.5-68.8 72 39.0 31.2-47.5
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 701 458 62.2 57.6-66.6 243 37.8 33.4-42.4
Piedmont 837 552 62.4 58.5-66.1 285 37.6 33.9-41.5
Western NC 386 249 62.7 56.2-68.8 137 37.3 31.2-43.8
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 294 191 65.3 58.1-71.9 103 34.7 28.1-41.9
Northwest 286 179 59.0 52.3-65.4 107 41.0 34.6-47.7
Charlotte 247 154 58.5 51.4-65.3 93 41.5 34.7-48.6
Greensboro 174 124 67.9 59.2-75.6 50 32.1 24.4-40.8
Southern Regional 172 107 58.1 49.5-66.2 65 41.9 33.8-50.5
Southeast 116 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Wake 227 159 65.2 57.7-72.1 68 34.8 27.9-42.3
Area L & Eastern 408 273 67.1 61.1-72.6 135 32.9 27.4-38.9

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2016 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2016 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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