2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

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 5 814 279 29.4 25.8-33.3 535 70.6 66.7-74.2
GENDER
Male 382 112 25.7 20.6-31.6 270 74.3 68.4-79.4
Female 432 167 32.9 27.9-38.2 265 67.1 61.8-72.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 502 175 30.4 26.0-35.1 327 69.6 64.9-74.0
Non-Hispanic Black 161 57 30.5 22.3-40.1 104 69.5 59.9-77.7
Other 151 47 23.5 15.9-33.5 104 76.5 66.5-84.1
AGE
18-44 294 31 8.9 6.1-13.0 263 91.1 87.0-93.9
45-64 256 99 38.1 30.6-46.1 157 61.9 53.9-69.4
65+ 245 146 62.0 54.6-68.9 99 38.0 31.1-45.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 310 128 35.5 29.3-42.3 182 64.5 57.7-70.7
Some Post-H.S. 249 86 28.0 22.1-34.8 163 72.0 65.2-77.9
College Graduate 254 65 20.7 15.9-26.3 189 79.3 73.7-84.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 408 161 34.9 29.6-40.6 247 65.1 59.4-70.4
$50,000+ 253 62 19.7 15.0-25.5 191 80.3 74.5-85.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 143 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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