2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 531 56 9.3 6.7-12.9 475 90.7 87.1-93.3
GENDER
Male 236 24 9.2 5.8-14.3 212 90.8 85.7-94.2
Female 295 32 9.5 5.8-15.1 263 90.5 84.9-94.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 328 42 13.0 8.9-18.5 286 87.0 81.5-91.1
Non-Hispanic Black 122 *** *** *** 112 95.5 90.4-98.0
Other 74 *** *** *** 71 98.3 94.0-99.5
AGE
18-44 178 *** *** *** 175 98.9 95.5-99.8
45-64 178 14 7.4 3.8-13.8 164 92.6 86.2-96.2
65+ 174 39 27.0 18.8-37.2 135 73.0 62.8-81.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 176 19 10.0 5.5-17.4 157 90.0 82.6-94.5
Some Post-H.S. 168 18 9.0 5.2-15.2 150 91.0 84.8-94.8
College Graduate 184 19 8.9 5.1-15.0 165 91.1 85.0-94.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 188 20 6.9 4.1-11.4 168 93.1 88.6-95.9
$50,000+ 234 28 10.8 6.9-16.5 206 89.2 83.5-93.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 104 *** *** *** 96 89.2 76.2-95.5

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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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