2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Colorectal Cancer Screening (Age 45+)

Colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy are exams to check for colon cancer.
Have you ever had either of these exams?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,627 1,953 74.6 72.5-76.6 674 25.4 23.4-27.5
Medicaid Region 3 509 384 77.9 73.3-81.9 125 22.1 18.1-26.7
GENDER
Male 219 161 75.7 68.6-81.7 58 24.3 18.3-31.4
Female 290 223 79.5 73.3-84.6 67 20.5 15.4-26.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 329 261 80.6 74.9-85.2 68 19.4 14.8-25.1
Non-Hispanic Black 105 90 88.2 79.9-93.3 15 11.8 6.7-20.1
Other 70 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 280 184 71.7 65.4-77.2 96 28.3 22.8-34.6
65+ 209 187 88.4 80.3-93.5 22 11.6 6.5-19.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 135 87 70.2 60.0-78.8 48 29.8 21.2-40.0
Some Post-H.S. 139 108 80.4 72.6-86.5 31 19.6 13.5-27.4
College Graduate 232 187 83.0 77.2-87.6 45 17.0 12.4-22.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 158 115 76.9 68.2-83.8 43 23.1 16.2-31.8
$50,000+ 229 180 81.1 74.9-86.0 49 18.9 14.0-25.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 122 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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