2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 4,312 390 7.5 6.6- 8.4 3,922 92.5 91.6-93.4
Medicaid Region 5 579 56 8.5 6.2-11.4 523 91.5 88.6-93.8
GENDER
Male 275 20 6.9 4.2-11.0 255 93.1 89.0-95.8
Female 304 36 9.9 6.6-14.7 268 90.1 85.3-93.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 363 44 10.6 7.6-14.6 319 89.4 85.4-92.4
Non-Hispanic Black 102 *** *** *** 96 95.1 89.1-97.9
Other 106 *** *** *** 100 93.5 80.1-98.1
AGE
18-44 222 *** *** *** 217 98.0 95.1-99.2
45-64 185 11 6.8 3.0-14.3 174 93.2 85.7-97.0
65+ 167 39 22.6 16.1-30.8 128 77.4 69.2-83.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 208 13 4.9 2.6- 9.0 195 95.1 91.0-97.4
Some Post-H.S. 163 22 12.8 7.8-20.2 141 87.2 79.8-92.2
College Graduate 206 21 9.1 5.7-14.3 185 90.9 85.7-94.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 183 21 11.0 6.8-17.3 162 89.0 82.7-93.2
$50,000+ 263 21 7.2 4.2-12.0 242 92.8 88.0-95.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 127 14 8.3 4.5-14.7 113 91.7 85.3-95.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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