2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had any other types of cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,718 448 7.0 6.2- 7.8 4,270 93.0 92.2-93.8
Medicaid Region 2 661 73 8.0 6.2-10.3 588 92.0 89.7-93.8
GENDER
Male 303 31 6.8 4.6-10.0 272 93.2 90.0-95.4
Female 358 42 9.0 6.4-12.6 316 91.0 87.4-93.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 482 59 9.3 7.0-12.3 423 90.7 87.7-93.0
Non-Hispanic Black 112 *** *** *** 104 94.7 89.1-97.5
Other 67 *** *** *** 61 95.8 90.2-98.3
AGE
18-44 216 *** *** *** 211 97.6 93.8-99.1
45-64 231 21 7.4 4.6-11.7 210 92.6 88.3-95.4
65+ 203 45 19.3 14.2-25.7 158 80.7 74.3-85.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 238 27 7.7 5.0-11.8 211 92.3 88.2-95.0
Some Post-H.S. 196 14 5.4 3.1- 9.5 182 94.6 90.5-96.9
College Graduate 224 31 11.5 7.9-16.5 193 88.5 83.5-92.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 274 33 8.7 5.8-12.7 241 91.3 87.3-94.2
$50,000+ 248 22 6.8 4.3-10.5 226 93.2 89.5-95.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 133 18 9.4 5.7-15.1 115 90.6 84.9-94.3

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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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