2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 1,067 375 36.0 32.6-39.5 692 64.0 60.5-67.4
GENDER
Male 470 172 38.2 33.1-43.5 298 61.8 56.5-66.9
Female 597 203 34.0 29.5-38.8 394 66.0 61.2-70.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 616 229 37.0 32.7-41.6 387 63.0 58.4-67.3
Non-Hispanic Black 195 85 44.4 36.3-52.9 110 55.6 47.1-63.7
Other 243 58 24.5 18.1-32.2 185 75.5 67.8-81.9
AGE
18-44 463 91 21.4 17.1-26.3 372 78.6 73.7-82.9
45-64 342 137 43.9 37.7-50.2 205 56.1 49.8-62.3
65+ 240 142 59.8 52.2-66.9 98 40.2 33.1-47.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 291 111 42.2 35.4-49.2 180 57.8 50.8-64.6
Some Post-H.S. 255 104 38.1 31.6-45.1 151 61.9 54.9-68.4
College Graduate 518 160 29.1 25.0-33.6 358 70.9 66.4-75.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 292 114 39.6 32.8-46.8 178 60.4 53.2-67.2
$50,000+ 521 176 35.0 30.3-39.9 345 65.0 60.1-69.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 254 85 34.1 27.4-41.6 169 65.9 58.4-72.6

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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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