2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 579 192 34.0 28.7-39.7 387 66.0 60.3-71.3
GENDER
Male 266 69 24.6 18.3-32.2 197 75.4 67.8-81.7
Female 313 123 43.2 35.3-51.5 190 56.8 48.5-64.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 301 138 41.2 34.0-48.7 163 58.8 51.3-66.0
Non-Hispanic Black 92 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 172 *** *** *** 145 85.9 73.0-93.2
AGE
18-44 184 44 24.0 16.7-33.3 140 76.0 66.7-83.3
45-64 216 73 41.7 32.7-51.4 143 58.3 48.6-67.3
65+ 174 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 224 41 19.5 12.9-28.4 183 80.5 71.6-87.1
Some Post-H.S. 196 70 37.5 28.5-47.4 126 62.5 52.6-71.5
College Graduate 159 81 58.5 48.2-68.2 78 41.5 31.8-51.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 231 46 18.4 12.5-26.4 185 81.6 73.6-87.5
$50,000+ 214 103 48.5 39.1-57.9 111 51.5 42.1-60.9
Don't know/Not Sure 134 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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