2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 423 310 75.4 70.0-80.0 113 24.6 20.0-30.0
GENDER
Male 193 135 69.5 61.4-76.6 58 30.5 23.4-38.6
Female 230 175 79.8 72.7-85.4 55 20.2 14.6-27.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 308 237 78.2 72.1-83.3 71 21.8 16.7-27.9
Non-Hispanic Black 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 232 144 64.2 56.4-71.4 88 35.8 28.6-43.6
65+ 175 155 92.1 86.4-95.5 20 7.9 4.5-13.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 118 73 70.4 59.2-79.6 45 29.6 20.4-40.8
Some Post-H.S. 118 90 75.0 64.2-83.4 28 25.0 16.6-35.8
College Graduate 187 147 81.1 74.3-86.5 40 18.9 13.5-25.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 133 94 72.6 61.2-81.6 39 27.4 18.4-38.8
$50,000+ 177 131 75.4 67.6-81.8 46 24.6 18.2-32.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 113 85 78.6 68.6-86.1 28 21.4 13.9-31.4

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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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