2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Lung Cancer Screening

The next question is about CT or CAT scans of your chest area. During this test, you lie flat on your back and are moved through an open, donut shaped x-ray machine.
Have you ever had a CT or CAT scan of your chest area?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,138 1,654 39.2 37.1-41.2 2,484 60.8 58.8-62.9
Medicaid Region 5 914 397 38.2 34.1-42.5 517 61.8 57.5-65.9
GENDER
Male 434 200 40.5 34.4-46.9 234 59.5 53.1-65.6
Female 480 197 36.1 30.5-42.0 283 63.9 58.0-69.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 477 209 39.6 34.3-45.1 268 60.4 54.9-65.7
Non-Hispanic Black 173 84 41.8 32.0-52.2 *** *** ***
Other 241 96 29.4 21.5-38.8 145 70.6 61.2-78.5
AGE
18-44 326 93 26.6 20.9-33.1 233 73.4 66.9-79.1
45-64 305 128 35.1 28.3-42.5 177 64.9 57.5-71.7
65+ 271 172 65.9 57.7-73.2 99 34.1 26.8-42.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 315 144 40.7 33.4-48.5 171 59.3 51.5-66.6
Some Post-H.S. 297 126 36.4 29.7-43.7 171 63.6 56.3-70.3
College Graduate 301 126 37.4 30.9-44.3 175 62.6 55.7-69.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 350 175 43.8 36.7-51.2 175 56.2 48.8-63.3
$50,000+ 363 140 34.4 28.5-40.8 223 65.6 59.2-71.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 201 82 36.2 28.0-45.3 119 63.8 54.7-72.0

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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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