2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Colorectal Cancer Screening (Age 45+)

Colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy are exams to check for colon cancer.
Have you ever had either of these exams?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,693 1,983 73.1 70.8-75.3 710 26.9 24.7-29.2
Medicaid Region 1 358 273 72.5 65.6-78.4 85 27.5 21.6-34.4
GENDER
Male 166 122 70.5 59.2-79.8 44 29.5 20.2-40.8
Female 192 151 74.5 66.4-81.3 41 25.5 18.7-33.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 315 244 72.2 64.7-78.6 71 27.8 21.4-35.3
Non-Hispanic Black 15 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 23 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 176 113 59.1 48.7-68.8 63 40.9 31.2-51.3
65+ 170 153 89.8 83.0-94.1 17 10.2 5.9-17.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 106 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 150 134 88.9 81.6-93.6 16 11.1 6.4-18.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 130 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 160 135 79.2 69.4-86.5 25 20.8 13.5-30.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 68 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2022 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2022 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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