2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 Demographics

Arthritis Burden

Please think about the past 30 days, keeping in mind all of your joint pain or aching
and whether or not you have taken medication.

DURING THE PAST 30 DAYS, how bad was your joint pain ON AVERAGE?*
(Please answer on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is no pain or aching and 10 is pain or aching as bad as it can be.)

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  Total
Respond.^		 No pain(0) Mild pain(1-3) Moderate pain(4-6) Severe pain(7-9) Extreme pain(10)
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,970 132 6.9 5.7- 8.4 476 22.0 19.9-24.3 702 35.2 32.7-37.9 498 25.7 23.4-28.2 162 10.1 8.3-12.2
Region 4 326 19 6.0 3.7- 9.6 82 23.6 18.6-29.5 113 33.8 28.1-40.1 78 24.5 19.2-30.7 34 12.1 7.9-18.0
GENDER
Male 117 *** *** *** 41 29.0 20.5-39.2 36 31.5 22.8-41.9 22 20.1 12.4-30.9 *** *** ***
Female 209 *** *** *** 41 19.4 13.8-26.6 77 35.6 28.4-43.5 56 27.9 21.2-35.8 26 13.0 8.2-20.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 241 12 5.3 2.9- 9.6 68 26.6 20.5-33.9 91 36.0 29.1-43.4 54 24.1 17.8-31.6 16 8.0 4.3-14.3
Non-Hispanic Black 65 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 17 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 32 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
44-64 153 *** *** *** 39 24.0 17.3-32.2 50 33.3 25.4-42.4 39 26.1 18.8-35.0 22 14.2 8.7-22.4
65+ 140 13 10.5 5.9-18.0 34 19.6 13.5-27.5 54 38.4 29.5-48.2 28 18.0 12.2-25.8 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 133 *** *** *** 20 12.9 7.7-21.0 45 35.5 26.5-45.6 37 30.0 21.0-40.7 23 16.3 9.8-25.8
Some College + 190 11 6.7 3.6-12.2 60 32.2 24.7-40.7 68 32.8 25.7-40.9 40 19.6 14.2-26.6 11 8.6 4.0-17.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 163 *** *** *** 33 18.4 12.2-26.7 58 33.5 25.5-42.5 39 26.1 18.1-36.1 27 18.7 11.7-28.5
$50,000+ 93 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 21 22.1 14.1-32.8 *** *** ***

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*This question was asked of those with doctor-diagnosed arthritis.

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 2015 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2015 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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