2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

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
Region 5 600 227 39.6 35.0-44.3 373 60.4 55.7-65.0
GENDER
Male 252 105 44.6 37.7-51.7 147 55.4 48.3-62.3
Female 348 122 35.2 29.3-41.7 226 64.8 58.3-70.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 351 140 40.8 34.9-46.9 211 59.2 53.1-65.1
Non-Hispanic Black 115 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 127 29 23.4 15.6-33.6 98 76.6 66.4-84.4
AGE
18-44 249 54 23.5 17.8-30.3 195 76.5 69.7-82.2
45-64 186 73 45.0 36.7-53.6 113 55.0 46.4-63.3
65+ 158 98 64.1 55.0-72.4 60 35.9 27.6-45.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 178 68 42.3 33.9-51.2 110 57.7 48.8-66.1
Some Post-H.S. 144 65 43.0 34.1-52.4 79 57.0 47.6-65.9
College Graduate 275 93 33.6 27.7-40.0 182 66.4 60.0-72.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 191 71 37.6 29.8-46.0 120 62.4 54.0-70.2
$50,000+ 264 95 37.2 30.5-44.4 169 62.8 55.6-69.5
Don't know/Not Sure 145 61 47.3 37.8-57.0 84 52.7 43.0-62.2

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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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