2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 522 222 37.2 32.2-42.5 300 62.8 57.5-67.8
GENDER
Male 247 97 33.8 27.1-41.2 150 66.2 58.8-72.9
Female 275 125 40.5 33.3-48.2 150 59.5 51.8-66.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 360 181 42.8 36.4-49.3 179 57.2 50.7-63.6
Non-Hispanic Black 88 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 62 *** *** *** 56 91.6 80.9-96.5
AGE
18-44 161 39 24.5 17.3-33.6 122 75.5 66.4-82.7
45-64 195 97 48.8 40.6-57.1 98 51.2 42.9-59.4
65+ 153 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 150 35 20.9 14.2-29.6 115 79.1 70.4-85.8
Some Post-H.S. 155 67 40.7 31.7-50.4 88 59.3 49.6-68.3
College Graduate 215 120 52.6 44.6-60.4 95 47.4 39.6-55.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 174 44 21.4 15.2-29.3 130 78.6 70.7-84.8
$50,000+ 221 130 54.2 46.3-61.9 91 45.8 38.1-53.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 127 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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