2024 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

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
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 397 64 17.1 12.8-22.6 333 82.9 77.4-87.2
Region 3 206 24 10.5 6.7-16.1 182 89.5 83.9-93.3
Region 4 418 45 10.8 7.7-14.8 373 89.2 85.2-92.3
Region 5 315 40 12.0 8.5-16.8 275 88.0 83.2-91.5
Region 6 136 20 16.9 10.4-26.3 116 83.1 73.7-89.6
Region 7 389 40 10.0 7.1-14.1 349 90.0 85.9-92.9
Region 8 201 25 14.2 9.2-21.4 176 85.8 78.6-90.8
Region 9 & 10 197 30 14.6 9.6-21.6 167 85.4 78.4-90.4
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 628 84 13.8 10.9-17.4 544 86.2 82.6-89.1
Piedmont 1,136 129 10.9 9.0-13.2 1,007 89.1 86.8-91.0
Western NC 495 75 16.2 12.3-21.0 420 83.8 79.0-87.7
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 336 51 15.4 11.3-20.8 285 84.6 79.2-88.7
Northwest 371 47 11.3 8.1-15.5 324 88.7 84.5-91.9
Charlotte 321 35 11.3 7.7-16.3 286 88.7 83.7-92.3
Greensboro 254 32 12.5 8.4-18.2 222 87.5 81.8-91.6
Southern Regional 165 28 20.2 13.4-29.1 137 79.8 70.9-86.6
Southeast 120 *** *** *** 111 91.2 82.0-95.9
Wake 395 44 10.6 7.6-14.6 351 89.4 85.4-92.4
Area L & Eastern 297 42 13.6 9.5-18.9 255 86.4 81.1-90.5
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 397 64 17.1 12.8-22.6 333 82.9 77.4-87.2
Region 2 347 45 12.5 8.9-17.3 302 87.5 82.7-91.1
Region 3 425 45 10.7 7.6-14.7 380 89.3 85.3-92.4
Region 4 544 56 9.7 7.3-12.9 488 90.3 87.1-92.7
Region 5 290 38 15.4 10.8-21.5 252 84.6 78.5-89.2
Region 6 256 40 15.5 10.9-21.6 216 84.5 78.4-89.1

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*Asked only of Respondents aged 45 or older.

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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