2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Cognitive Decline

During the past 12 months, have you experienced difficulties with thinking or memory that are happening more often or are getting worse?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,259 288 12.4 10.9-14.2 1,971 87.6 85.8-89.1
Medicaid Region 1 397 64 17.1 12.8-22.6 333 82.9 77.4-87.2
GENDER
Male 159 28 16.7 11.0-24.4 131 83.3 75.6-89.0
Female 238 36 17.5 11.5-25.5 202 82.5 74.5-88.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 355 58 17.5 12.9-23.4 297 82.5 76.6-87.1
Non-Hispanic Black 16 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 22 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 167 27 14.9 9.8-21.9 140 85.1 78.1-90.2
65+ 224 37 19.9 13.2-28.8 187 80.1 71.2-86.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 107 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 122 18 13.5 8.0-22.1 104 86.5 77.9-92.0
College Graduate 167 32 19.2 13.4-26.9 135 80.8 73.1-86.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 141 19 12.2 7.1-20.4 122 87.8 79.6-92.9
$50,000+ 145 26 16.0 10.3-24.2 119 84.0 75.8-89.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 111 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Asked only of Respondents aged 45 or older.

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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