2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Colorectal Cancer Screening (Age 45+)

Have you ever had any other kind of test for colorectal cancer, such as virtual colonoscopy, CT colonography, blood stool test, FIT DNA, or Cologuard test?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,585 450 16.9 15.2-18.8 2,135 83.1 81.2-84.8
Medicaid Region 3 492 83 18.0 14.1-22.6 409 82.0 77.4-85.9
GENDER
Male 209 36 16.6 11.6-23.2 173 83.4 76.8-88.4
Female 283 47 19.0 13.6-25.8 236 81.0 74.2-86.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 323 60 19.1 14.4-24.8 263 80.9 75.2-85.6
Non-Hispanic Black 99 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 65 *** *** *** 59 91.4 81.2-96.3
AGE
45-64 272 32 15.4 10.5-22.1 240 84.6 77.9-89.5
65+ 202 50 23.5 17.2-31.2 152 76.5 68.8-82.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 132 21 19.7 12.5-29.6 111 80.3 70.4-87.5
Some Post-H.S. 137 23 18.0 11.2-27.7 114 82.0 72.3-88.8
College Graduate 220 39 16.4 11.7-22.5 181 83.6 77.5-88.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 157 30 22.0 14.6-31.7 127 78.0 68.3-85.4
$50,000+ 222 38 17.2 12.3-23.6 184 82.8 76.4-87.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 113 15 14.4 7.5-26.0 98 85.6 74.0-92.5

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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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