2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 866 76 5.9 4.4- 7.8 790 94.1 92.2-95.6
GENDER
Male 398 22 4.1 2.4- 6.9 376 95.9 93.1-97.6
Female 468 54 7.6 5.4-10.6 414 92.4 89.4-94.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 549 56 6.4 4.6- 8.8 493 93.6 91.2-95.4
Non-Hispanic Black 234 15 5.3 2.7-10.1 219 94.7 89.9-97.3
Other 83 *** *** *** 78 96.2 89.4-98.7
AGE
18-44 267 *** *** *** 263 99.0 96.8-99.7
45-64 315 28 6.5 4.2-10.1 287 93.5 89.9-95.8
65+ 272 43 14.2 9.7-20.2 229 85.8 79.8-90.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 353 25 5.0 3.0- 8.1 328 95.0 91.9-97.0
Some Post-H.S. 257 23 5.8 3.4- 9.6 234 94.2 90.4-96.6
College Graduate 255 28 8.1 5.2-12.4 227 91.9 87.6-94.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 426 39 5.3 3.5- 7.9 387 94.7 92.1-96.5
$50,000+ 272 25 6.5 4.0-10.5 247 93.5 89.5-96.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 161 12 6.6 3.3-12.8 149 93.4 87.2-96.7

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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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