2024 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Cognitive Decline

During the past 12 months, have your difficulties with thinking or memory interfered with your ability to work or volunteer?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 285 62 25.0 19.1-32.0 223 75.0 68.0-80.9
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 63 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 3 24 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 45 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 5 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 6 20 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 7 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 8 25 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 9 & 10 30 *** *** *** *** *** ***
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Piedmont 128 27 25.7 17.3-36.4 101 74.3 63.6-82.7
Western NC 74 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 50 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Northwest 47 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Charlotte 35 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Greensboro 31 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southern Regional 28 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southeast 9 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Wake 43 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Area L & Eastern 42 *** *** *** *** *** ***
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 63 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 2 45 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 3 45 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 54 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 5 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 6 40 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Asked only of Respondents aged 45 or older who reported progressive memory or cognitive decline.

See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

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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