2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Colorectal Cancer Screening (Age 45+)

Have you ever had any other kind of test for colorectal cancer, such as virtual colonoscopy, CT colonography, blood stool test, FIT DNA, or Cologuard test?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,636 452 18.3 16.4-20.4 2,184 81.7 79.6-83.6
Medicaid Region 5 599 87 16.1 12.8-20.1 512 83.9 79.9-87.2
GENDER
Male 273 44 17.9 12.4-25.1 229 82.1 74.9-87.6
Female 326 43 14.5 10.2-20.4 283 85.5 79.6-89.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 342 51 15.6 11.5-20.8 291 84.4 79.2-88.5
Non-Hispanic Black 121 21 18.3 10.3-30.4 100 81.7 69.6-89.7
Other 119 11 8.7 3.6-19.5 108 91.3 80.5-96.4
AGE
45-64 309 39 14.5 10.6-19.5 270 85.5 80.5-89.4
65+ 277 46 18.5 13.1-25.6 231 81.5 74.4-86.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 187 21 9.5 5.5-15.9 166 90.5 84.1-94.5
Some Post-H.S. 200 33 20.2 13.6-28.8 167 79.8 71.2-86.4
College Graduate 211 32 18.4 12.3-26.5 179 81.6 73.5-87.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 218 27 15.6 10.5-22.4 191 84.4 77.6-89.5
$50,000+ 243 44 18.6 13.3-25.3 199 81.4 74.7-86.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 138 16 12.2 6.7-21.3 122 87.8 78.7-93.3

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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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