2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 Demographics

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
Region 4 418 45 10.8 7.7-14.8 373 89.2 85.2-92.3
GENDER
Male 168 17 10.7 6.4-17.2 151 89.3 82.8-93.6
Female 250 28 10.8 7.0-16.5 222 89.2 83.5-93.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 277 33 12.3 8.4-17.7 244 87.7 82.3-91.6
Non-Hispanic Black 84 *** *** *** 77 93.2 84.3-97.2
Other 55 *** *** *** 51 91.4 77.8-97.0
AGE
45-64 228 23 11.7 7.6-17.7 205 88.3 82.3-92.4
65+ 175 22 10.5 6.3-16.9 153 89.5 83.1-93.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 114 17 15.2 9.1-24.5 97 84.8 75.5-90.9
Some Post-H.S. 118 *** *** *** 110 93.3 86.1-96.9
College Graduate 185 20 10.2 6.2-16.4 165 89.8 83.6-93.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 126 15 12.3 6.8-21.3 111 87.7 78.7-93.2
$50,000+ 187 19 11.0 6.6-17.6 168 89.0 82.4-93.4
Don't know/Not Sure 105 11 8.7 4.5-16.3 94 91.3 83.7-95.5

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*Asked only of Respondents aged 45 or older.

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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