2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 371 299 81.1 75.2-85.9 72 18.9 14.1-24.8
GENDER
Male 157 118 74.1 63.6-82.4 39 25.9 17.6-36.4
Female 214 181 87.4 81.9-91.4 33 12.6 8.6-18.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 250 193 76.4 68.6-82.7 57 23.6 17.3-31.4
Non-Hispanic Black 85 74 88.9 77.0-95.0 11 11.1 5.0-23.0
Other 24 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 180 126 73.1 64.3-80.5 54 26.9 19.5-35.7
65+ 181 163 88.8 79.9-94.1 18 11.2 5.9-20.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 131 108 80.3 69.6-87.9 23 19.7 12.1-30.4
Some Post-H.S. 103 84 84.4 75.7-90.3 19 15.6 9.7-24.3
College Graduate 136 107 79.7 71.0-86.3 29 20.3 13.7-29.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 150 122 79.8 69.1-87.5 28 20.2 12.5-30.9
$50,000+ 138 109 77.4 66.8-85.4 29 22.6 14.6-33.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 83 68 87.6 78.6-93.2 15 12.4 6.8-21.4

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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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