2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 615 452 72.1 66.7-76.9 163 27.9 23.1-33.3
GENDER
Male 280 196 68.4 60.0-75.8 84 31.6 24.2-40.0
Female 335 256 75.2 68.0-81.2 79 24.8 18.8-32.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 350 274 76.2 69.9-81.6 76 23.8 18.4-30.1
Non-Hispanic Black 122 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 125 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 316 190 60.1 52.0-67.6 126 39.9 32.4-48.0
65+ 286 256 89.4 83.3-93.4 30 10.6 6.6-16.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 199 128 62.6 52.0-72.1 *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 203 153 78.1 70.4-84.3 50 21.9 15.7-29.6
College Graduate 212 171 76.5 67.6-83.6 41 23.5 16.4-32.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 228 161 67.5 57.2-76.4 67 32.5 23.6-42.8
$50,000+ 248 187 73.7 65.3-80.7 61 26.3 19.3-34.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 139 104 76.0 65.2-84.3 35 24.0 15.7-34.8

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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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