2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 425 45 10.7 7.6-14.7 380 89.3 85.3-92.4
GENDER
Male 171 17 10.6 6.3-17.1 154 89.4 82.9-93.7
Female 254 28 10.7 6.9-16.4 226 89.3 83.6-93.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 282 33 12.0 8.2-17.4 249 88.0 82.6-91.8
Non-Hispanic Black 86 *** *** *** 79 93.5 84.9-97.3
Other 55 *** *** *** 51 91.5 77.8-97.1
AGE
45-64 232 23 11.7 7.5-17.7 209 88.3 82.3-92.5
65+ 178 22 10.2 6.2-16.5 156 89.8 83.5-93.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 117 17 15.2 9.0-24.6 100 84.8 75.4-91.0
Some Post-H.S. 120 *** *** *** 112 93.5 86.5-96.9
College Graduate 187 20 10.0 6.0-16.1 167 90.0 83.9-94.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 129 15 12.2 6.7-21.2 114 87.8 78.8-93.3
$50,000+ 190 19 10.8 6.5-17.4 171 89.2 82.6-93.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 106 11 8.7 4.5-16.3 95 91.3 83.7-95.5

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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 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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