2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had any melanoma or any other types of cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,075 398 8.0 7.0- 9.1 3,677 92.0 90.9-93.0
Medicaid Region 1 506 63 10.4 7.1-14.9 443 89.6 85.1-92.9
GENDER
Male 211 23 7.0 4.0-11.9 188 93.0 88.1-96.0
Female 295 40 13.6 8.4-21.4 255 86.4 78.6-91.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 414 56 11.9 8.1-17.1 358 88.1 82.9-91.9
Non-Hispanic Black 26 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 62 *** *** *** 59 99.2 96.1-99.8
AGE
18-44 122 *** *** *** 121 99.4 96.1-99.9
45-64 166 19 15.0 7.9-26.6 147 85.0 73.4-92.1
65+ 208 42 18.5 12.0-27.2 166 81.5 72.8-88.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 141 14 9.9 4.7-19.9 127 90.1 80.1-95.3
Some Post-H.S. 157 18 10.0 5.3-18.0 139 90.0 82.0-94.7
College Graduate 206 30 10.6 6.7-16.5 176 89.4 83.5-93.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 172 16 8.7 3.7-19.1 156 91.3 80.9-96.3
$50,000+ 207 26 11.4 7.2-17.7 181 88.6 82.3-92.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 120 20 12.4 6.5-22.5 100 87.6 77.5-93.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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