2019 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 4,277 400 7.8 7.0- 8.7 3,877 92.2 91.3-93.0
Medicaid Region 5 550 60 10.3 7.7-13.6 490 89.7 86.4-92.3
GENDER
Male 219 17 6.2 3.5-10.7 202 93.8 89.3-96.5
Female 331 43 14.1 10.1-19.3 288 85.9 80.7-89.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 260 38 12.3 8.6-17.3 222 87.7 82.7-91.4
Non-Hispanic Black 156 15 8.6 4.8-15.0 141 91.4 85.0-95.2
Other 134 *** *** *** 127 95.8 90.4-98.2
AGE
18-44 207 11 4.8 2.4- 9.2 196 95.2 90.8-97.6
45-64 187 18 9.4 5.6-15.2 169 90.6 84.8-94.4
65+ 149 30 22.2 14.7-32.1 119 77.8 67.9-85.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 239 16 6.5 3.5-11.7 223 93.5 88.3-96.5
Some Post-H.S. 165 22 14.8 9.6-22.1 143 85.2 77.9-90.4
College Graduate 143 21 11.6 7.3-18.0 122 88.4 82.0-92.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 259 26 9.1 5.8-14.0 233 90.9 86.0-94.2
$50,000+ 165 20 10.8 6.5-17.2 145 89.2 82.8-93.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 117 13 11.4 5.9-20.8 104 88.6 79.2-94.1

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 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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