2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 529 46 7.3 5.2-10.2 483 92.7 89.8-94.8
GENDER
Male 253 19 5.7 3.3- 9.5 234 94.3 90.5-96.7
Female 276 27 8.9 5.6-13.6 249 91.1 86.4-94.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 299 35 8.8 5.9-12.8 264 91.2 87.2-94.1
Non-Hispanic Black 116 *** *** *** 107 91.0 81.5-95.8
Other 102 *** *** *** 100 98.8 95.1-99.7
AGE
18-44 213 *** *** *** 212 99.8 98.7- 100
45-64 169 16 10.8 6.3-18.0 153 89.2 82.0-93.7
65+ 136 29 19.7 12.9-28.9 107 80.3 71.1-87.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 153 *** *** *** 144 96.3 91.7-98.4
Some Post-H.S. 144 15 8.6 4.8-15.0 129 91.4 85.0-95.2
College Graduate 227 22 10.2 6.2-16.3 205 89.8 83.7-93.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 157 *** *** *** 148 94.4 88.3-97.4
$50,000+ 245 23 7.4 4.6-11.9 222 92.6 88.1-95.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 120 13 9.2 4.8-17.1 107 90.8 82.9-95.2

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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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