2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 5 551 246 40.5 35.7-45.5 305 59.5 54.5-64.3
GENDER
Male 247 98 34.9 28.5-42.0 149 65.1 58.0-71.5
Female 304 148 45.2 38.4-52.2 156 54.8 47.8-61.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 338 178 45.7 39.4-52.3 160 54.3 47.7-60.6
Non-Hispanic Black 111 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 91 19 19.6 11.5-31.5 72 80.4 68.5-88.5
AGE
18-44 224 60 25.0 18.9-32.3 164 75.0 67.7-81.1
45-64 188 116 60.1 51.4-68.2 72 39.9 31.8-48.6
65+ 129 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 137 26 19.7 12.8-29.1 111 80.3 70.9-87.2
Some Post-H.S. 145 64 40.6 31.6-50.2 81 59.4 49.8-68.4
College Graduate 264 156 58.9 51.8-65.6 108 41.1 34.4-48.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 168 46 24.7 17.5-33.6 122 75.3 66.4-82.5
$50,000+ 264 156 54.8 47.7-61.7 108 45.2 38.3-52.3
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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