2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 Demographics

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
Region 4 480 189 38.1 32.8-43.8 291 61.9 56.2-67.2
GENDER
Male 231 87 40.6 32.7-48.9 144 59.4 51.1-67.3
Female 249 102 35.7 28.8-43.3 147 64.3 56.7-71.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 313 148 45.2 38.6-51.9 165 54.8 48.1-61.4
Non-Hispanic Black 87 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 73 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 180 49 28.7 21.5-37.2 131 71.3 62.8-78.5
45-64 175 77 47.7 38.8-56.7 98 52.3 43.3-61.2
65+ 113 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 149 35 23.7 16.3-33.3 114 76.3 66.7-83.7
Some Post-H.S. 136 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 192 96 52.1 43.9-60.2 96 47.9 39.8-56.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 146 31 21.0 13.9-30.4 115 79.0 69.6-86.1
$50,000+ 215 116 55.0 47.2-62.5 99 45.0 37.5-52.8
Don't know/Not Sure 119 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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