2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Colorectal Cancer Screening (Age 45+)

Have you ever had any other kind of test for colorectal cancer, such as virtual colonoscopy, CT colonography, blood stool test, FIT DNA, or Cologuard test?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,585 450 16.9 15.2-18.8 2,135 83.1 81.2-84.8
Medicaid Region 5 352 57 15.2 11.4-20.1 295 84.8 79.9-88.6
GENDER
Male 147 21 15.3 9.4-23.8 126 84.7 76.2-90.6
Female 205 36 15.2 10.5-21.6 169 84.8 78.4-89.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 243 42 18.2 13.1-24.8 201 81.8 75.2-86.9
Non-Hispanic Black 56 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 45 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 179 25 12.1 7.9-18.2 154 87.9 81.8-92.1
65+ 168 32 19.9 13.5-28.5 136 80.1 71.5-86.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 121 15 12.7 7.1-21.7 106 87.3 78.3-92.9
Some Post-H.S. 100 24 19.7 12.6-29.3 76 80.3 70.7-87.4
College Graduate 131 18 13.4 8.2-21.2 113 86.6 78.8-91.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 106 24 22.0 14.1-32.8 82 78.0 67.2-85.9
$50,000+ 162 20 11.8 7.2-18.7 142 88.2 81.3-92.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 84 13 13.7 7.4-24.0 71 86.3 76.0-92.6

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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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