2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 863 311 33.0 29.1-37.1 552 67.0 62.9-70.9
GENDER
Male 397 127 31.4 25.6-37.9 270 68.6 62.1-74.4
Female 466 184 34.5 29.3-40.1 282 65.5 59.9-70.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 546 201 33.2 28.6-38.1 345 66.8 61.9-71.4
Non-Hispanic Black 236 93 36.2 28.2-45.0 143 63.8 55.0-71.8
Other 81 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 265 34 16.4 10.9-23.8 231 83.6 76.2-89.1
45-64 315 120 38.2 31.5-45.3 195 61.8 54.7-68.5
65+ 272 152 59.9 52.3-67.0 120 40.1 33.0-47.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 353 129 31.2 25.7-37.4 224 68.8 62.6-74.3
Some Post-H.S. 258 109 40.6 33.2-48.4 149 59.4 51.6-66.8
College Graduate 251 73 22.8 17.7-28.8 178 77.2 71.2-82.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 426 164 32.0 26.9-37.6 262 68.0 62.4-73.1
$50,000+ 272 89 33.9 26.7-42.0 183 66.1 58.0-73.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 158 57 35.7 26.8-45.9 101 64.3 54.1-73.2

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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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