2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 576 58 8.0 5.9-10.9 518 92.0 89.1-94.1
GENDER
Male 249 22 6.5 3.9-10.6 227 93.5 89.4-96.1
Female 327 36 9.4 6.3-13.8 291 90.6 86.2-93.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 408 53 11.3 8.1-15.4 355 88.7 84.6-91.9
Non-Hispanic Black 85 *** *** *** 83 99.1 96.1-99.8
Other 75 *** *** *** 72 96.5 88.1-99.1
AGE
18-44 184 *** *** *** 178 96.9 92.6-98.7
45-64 204 14 6.2 3.3-11.5 190 93.8 88.5-96.7
65+ 177 38 20.1 13.7-28.5 139 79.9 71.5-86.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 186 20 7.2 4.2-12.0 166 92.8 88.0-95.8
Some Post-H.S. 141 15 8.9 4.9-15.5 126 91.1 84.5-95.1
College Graduate 245 23 8.6 5.4-13.4 222 91.4 86.6-94.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 185 21 10.0 6.1-15.9 164 90.0 84.1-93.9
$50,000+ 246 19 5.6 3.3- 9.5 227 94.4 90.5-96.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 137 17 9.5 5.1-16.9 120 90.5 83.1-94.9

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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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