2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

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 3 721 188 25.9 22.4-29.8 533 74.1 70.2-77.6
GENDER
Male 334 82 24.6 19.7-30.2 252 75.4 69.8-80.3
Female 387 106 27.2 22.2-32.8 281 72.8 67.2-77.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 473 148 31.3 26.6-36.4 325 68.7 63.6-73.4
Non-Hispanic Black 135 29 20.0 13.3-28.9 106 80.0 71.1-86.7
Other 113 11 9.0 4.6-16.8 102 91.0 83.2-95.4
AGE
18-44 287 25 9.0 6.0-13.3 262 91.0 86.7-94.0
45-64 236 72 33.6 27.0-40.9 164 66.4 59.1-73.0
65+ 182 90 57.7 48.6-66.4 92 42.3 33.6-51.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 247 76 31.0 24.6-38.2 171 69.0 61.8-75.4
Some Post-H.S. 219 56 25.0 19.0-32.0 163 75.0 68.0-81.0
College Graduate 250 55 19.5 14.7-25.4 195 80.5 74.6-85.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 278 78 27.1 21.4-33.6 200 72.9 66.4-78.6
$50,000+ 296 73 23.9 18.9-29.8 223 76.1 70.2-81.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 138 37 29.8 20.7-40.7 101 70.2 59.3-79.3

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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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