2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 549 231 40.3 35.6-45.2 318 59.7 54.8-64.4
GENDER
Male 255 115 43.0 36.2-50.1 140 57.0 49.9-63.8
Female 294 116 37.9 31.5-44.7 178 62.1 55.3-68.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 341 152 42.5 36.6-48.6 189 57.5 51.4-63.4
Non-Hispanic Black 97 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 103 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 211 51 24.0 18.1-31.0 160 76.0 69.0-81.9
45-64 173 81 49.3 40.7-58.0 92 50.7 42.0-59.3
65+ 160 98 61.6 52.1-70.3 62 38.4 29.7-47.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 199 83 39.3 31.8-47.4 116 60.7 52.6-68.2
Some Post-H.S. 153 68 42.2 33.6-51.3 85 57.8 48.7-66.4
College Graduate 195 79 39.5 32.0-47.5 116 60.5 52.5-68.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 176 81 44.4 36.0-53.1 95 55.6 46.9-64.0
$50,000+ 252 100 38.9 32.3-45.9 152 61.1 54.1-67.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 121 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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