2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 544 56 9.7 7.3-12.9 488 90.3 87.1-92.7
GENDER
Male 226 29 13.0 8.8-18.9 197 87.0 81.1-91.2
Female 318 27 6.7 4.5-10.0 291 93.3 90.0-95.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 354 41 11.2 8.0-15.4 313 88.8 84.6-92.0
Non-Hispanic Black 112 *** *** *** 103 92.2 84.3-96.3
Other 73 *** *** *** 67 93.0 83.1-97.3
AGE
45-64 308 26 6.9 4.5-10.3 282 93.1 89.7-95.5
65+ 220 30 14.7 9.9-21.3 190 85.3 78.7-90.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 146 14 9.5 5.3-16.6 132 90.5 83.4-94.7
Some Post-H.S. 133 13 8.7 4.7-15.6 120 91.3 84.4-95.3
College Graduate 264 29 10.9 7.5-15.5 235 89.1 84.5-92.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 129 12 8.0 4.2-14.7 117 92.0 85.3-95.8
$50,000+ 279 36 12.3 8.7-17.3 243 87.7 82.7-91.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 136 *** *** *** 128 94.6 87.7-97.8

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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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