2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Cognitive Decline

During the past 12 months, have you experienced confusion or memory loss that is happening more often or is getting worse?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,293 221 6.9 5.9- 8.2 3,072 93.1 91.8-94.1
Medicaid Region 6 454 31 8.1 5.4-11.8 423 91.9 88.2-94.6
GENDER
Male 201 17 9.9 6.0-15.8 184 90.1 84.2-94.0
Female 253 14 6.4 3.3-12.0 239 93.6 88.0-96.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 314 17 6.5 3.8-11.1 297 93.5 88.9-96.2
Non-Hispanic Black 110 *** *** *** 100 90.4 82.3-95.0
Other 30 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 243 18 9.0 5.4-14.8 225 91.0 85.2-94.6
65+ 206 13 7.0 3.8-12.4 193 93.0 87.6-96.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 177 16 8.0 4.6-13.5 161 92.0 86.5-95.4
Some Post-H.S. 147 11 9.9 5.1-18.2 136 90.1 81.8-94.9
College Graduate 128 *** *** *** 125 97.6 92.6-99.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 189 20 13.6 8.4-21.3 169 86.4 78.7-91.6
$50,000+ 155 *** *** *** 151 97.2 91.8-99.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 110 *** *** *** 103 95.1 89.4-97.8

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*Asked only of Respondents aged 45 or older.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2020 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2020 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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