2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you have some form of arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus,
or fibromyalgia?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,883 1,490 24.3 22.9-25.9 3,393 75.7 74.1-77.1
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 809 292 30.8 26.5-35.4 517 69.2 64.6-73.5
Region 3 & 5 926 241 22.0 19.1-25.2 685 78.0 74.8-80.9
Region 4 682 165 21.9 18.6-25.6 517 78.1 74.4-81.4
Region 6 & 7 1,011 277 22.8 19.9-25.9 734 77.2 74.1-80.1
Region 8 716 253 27.4 23.7-31.4 463 72.6 68.6-76.3
Region 9 & 10 741 263 31.2 27.4-35.4 478 68.8 64.6-72.6
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,941 677 28.6 26.1-31.2 1,264 71.4 68.8-73.9
Piedmont 2,002 479 21.1 19.2-23.3 1,523 78.9 76.7-80.8
Western NC 942 335 29.9 26.1-34.1 607 70.1 65.9-73.9
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 723 258 33.9 29.2-39.0 465 66.1 61.0-70.8
Northwest 626 204 28.9 24.7-33.5 422 71.1 66.5-75.3
Charlotte 558 127 19.4 16.0-23.3 431 80.6 76.7-84.0
Greensboro 384 87 19.5 15.4-24.5 297 80.5 75.5-84.6
Southern Regional 699 254 28.3 24.1-32.9 445 71.7 67.1-75.9
Southeast 306 107 32.0 26.4-38.2 199 68.0 61.8-73.6
Wake 635 132 16.2 13.3-19.5 503 83.8 80.5-86.7
Area L & Eastern 954 322 29.1 25.5-33.0 632 70.9 67.0-74.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 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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