2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 815 327 37.8 33.9-41.7 488 62.2 58.3-66.1
GENDER
Male 387 159 40.0 34.5-45.8 228 60.0 54.2-65.5
Female 428 168 35.6 30.5-41.1 260 64.4 58.9-69.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 467 214 42.3 37.2-47.5 253 57.7 52.5-62.8
Non-Hispanic Black 162 63 32.4 24.8-41.1 99 67.6 58.9-75.2
Other 180 46 28.1 20.4-37.2 134 71.9 62.8-79.6
AGE
18-44 332 73 21.4 16.8-26.8 259 78.6 73.2-83.2
45-64 265 124 49.1 42.1-56.1 141 50.9 43.9-57.9
65+ 200 126 60.0 50.8-68.6 74 40.0 31.4-49.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 235 93 40.5 33.3-48.2 142 59.5 51.8-66.7
Some Post-H.S. 208 87 36.4 29.5-44.0 121 63.6 56.0-70.5
College Graduate 369 145 36.1 30.8-41.7 224 63.9 58.3-69.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 234 96 40.4 32.9-48.4 138 59.6 51.6-67.1
$50,000+ 400 156 38.5 33.2-44.0 244 61.5 56.0-66.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 181 75 33.1 25.8-41.4 106 66.9 58.6-74.2

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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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