2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

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 5 818 91 8.2 6.4-10.4 727 91.8 89.6-93.6
GENDER
Male 382 34 6.0 4.1- 8.7 348 94.0 91.3-95.9
Female 436 57 10.2 7.5-13.9 379 89.8 86.1-92.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 504 67 10.3 7.8-13.5 437 89.7 86.5-92.2
Non-Hispanic Black 163 11 4.2 2.1- 8.3 152 95.8 91.7-97.9
Other 151 13 5.9 2.9-11.7 138 94.1 88.3-97.1
AGE
18-44 292 *** *** *** 283 97.3 94.0-98.8
45-64 261 24 7.9 5.0-12.3 237 92.1 87.7-95.0
65+ 246 57 20.4 15.4-26.7 189 79.6 73.3-84.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 310 27 6.3 4.1- 9.7 283 93.7 90.3-95.9
Some Post-H.S. 250 26 8.0 5.0-12.6 224 92.0 87.4-95.0
College Graduate 257 38 11.9 8.4-16.6 219 88.1 83.4-91.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 412 52 10.0 7.3-13.5 360 90.0 86.5-92.7
$50,000+ 254 28 8.3 5.3-12.7 226 91.7 87.3-94.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 142 *** *** *** 132 96.3 91.5-98.4

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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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