2021 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 4,927 393 6.9 6.0- 7.8 4,534 93.1 92.2-94.0
Medicaid Region 5 1,188 120 8.2 6.6-10.1 1,068 91.8 89.9-93.4
GENDER
Male 526 40 6.5 4.4- 9.3 486 93.5 90.7-95.6
Female 662 80 9.8 7.4-12.7 582 90.2 87.3-92.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 658 73 9.6 7.3-12.4 585 90.4 87.6-92.7
Non-Hispanic Black 271 20 6.4 3.8-10.8 251 93.6 89.2-96.2
Other 243 26 6.0 3.3-10.6 217 94.0 89.4-96.7
AGE
18-44 375 *** *** *** 368 98.6 96.5-99.5
45-64 357 28 8.2 5.4-12.1 329 91.8 87.9-94.6
65+ 427 81 19.5 15.1-24.8 346 80.5 75.2-84.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 433 42 7.6 5.2-11.0 391 92.4 89.0-94.8
Some Post-H.S. 346 45 9.8 6.9-13.7 301 90.2 86.3-93.1
College Graduate 404 33 6.7 4.5-10.0 371 93.3 90.0-95.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 469 52 9.2 6.6-12.6 417 90.8 87.4-93.4
$50,000+ 444 33 4.9 3.2- 7.5 411 95.1 92.5-96.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 272 35 12.3 8.2-18.2 237 87.7 81.8-91.8

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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