2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Lung Cancer Screening

The next question is about CT or CAT scans of your chest area. During this test, you lie flat on your back and are moved through an open, donut shaped x-ray machine.
Have you ever had a CT or CAT scan of your chest area?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,018 1,616 38.2 36.4-40.0 2,402 61.8 60.0-63.6
Medicaid Region 6 452 205 39.5 34.4-44.9 247 60.5 55.1-65.6
GENDER
Male 205 105 45.6 37.8-53.7 100 54.4 46.3-62.2
Female 247 100 33.4 27.0-40.4 147 66.6 59.6-73.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 297 138 38.8 32.6-45.4 159 61.2 54.6-67.4
Non-Hispanic Black 96 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 56 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 158 38 23.2 16.6-31.4 120 76.8 68.6-83.4
45-64 148 75 49.9 40.6-59.3 73 50.1 40.7-59.4
65+ 143 90 56.7 46.3-66.6 53 43.3 33.4-53.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 152 61 36.0 28.1-44.8 91 64.0 55.2-71.9
Some Post-H.S. 131 61 41.6 32.3-51.5 70 58.4 48.5-67.7
College Graduate 166 81 41.0 32.4-50.3 85 59.0 49.7-67.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 143 71 42.6 33.5-52.2 72 57.4 47.8-66.5
$50,000+ 202 94 44.0 36.2-52.1 108 56.0 47.9-63.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 107 40 27.3 18.9-37.6 67 72.7 62.4-81.1

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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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