2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

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 4,700 1,501 27.6 26.1-29.2 3,199 72.4 70.8-73.9
Medicaid Region 2 658 205 27.0 23.4-30.9 453 73.0 69.1-76.6
GENDER
Male 302 80 21.1 16.6-26.5 222 78.9 73.5-83.4
Female 356 125 32.2 27.0-37.9 231 67.8 62.1-73.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 479 162 30.2 25.8-35.1 317 69.8 64.9-74.2
Non-Hispanic Black 112 29 21.0 14.1-30.0 83 79.0 70.0-85.9
Other 67 14 16.1 9.2-26.8 53 83.9 73.2-90.8
AGE
18-44 216 16 7.4 4.4-12.2 200 92.6 87.8-95.6
45-64 230 80 34.9 28.3-42.0 150 65.1 58.0-71.7
65+ 202 103 50.1 41.9-58.2 99 49.9 41.8-58.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 236 83 29.5 23.4-36.4 153 70.5 63.6-76.6
Some Post-H.S. 195 66 28.4 22.1-35.6 129 71.6 64.4-77.9
College Graduate 224 54 20.5 15.5-26.6 170 79.5 73.4-84.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 273 103 34.6 28.4-41.4 170 65.4 58.6-71.6
$50,000+ 247 54 17.6 13.1-23.3 193 82.4 76.7-86.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 132 46 29.7 21.8-39.1 86 70.3 60.9-78.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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