2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Oral Health

In the past year, have you had a dentist or dental hygienist check for oral cancer by pulling on your tongue with gauze wrapped around it,
feeling under the tongue and inside the cheeks, and checking the back of your throat?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,401 1,378 37.8 35.7-40.0 2,023 62.2 60.0-64.3
Medicaid Region 6 445 177 33.5 28.3-39.2 268 66.5 60.8-71.7
GENDER
Male 198 72 29.4 22.5-37.5 126 70.6 62.5-77.5
Female 247 105 37.5 30.0-45.7 142 62.5 54.3-70.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 284 134 39.4 32.6-46.7 150 60.6 53.3-67.4
Non-Hispanic Black 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 47 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 135 40 25.4 18.1-34.3 95 74.6 65.7-81.9
45-64 158 64 40.9 31.1-51.4 94 59.1 48.6-68.9
65+ 143 71 39.4 30.2-49.5 72 60.6 50.5-69.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 154 32 17.7 11.6-26.0 122 82.3 74.0-88.4
Some Post-H.S. 137 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 152 90 61.0 51.1-70.0 62 39.0 30.0-48.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 173 46 20.9 14.2-29.5 127 79.1 70.5-85.8
$50,000+ 175 95 51.0 42.0-60.1 80 49.0 39.9-58.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 97 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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