2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 882 221 22.0 19.1-25.2 661 78.0 74.8-80.9
GENDER
Male 422 87 18.1 14.3-22.6 335 81.9 77.4-85.7
Female 460 134 25.6 21.3-30.4 326 74.4 69.6-78.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 536 139 22.6 18.9-26.7 397 77.4 73.3-81.1
Non-Hispanic Black 201 67 28.9 22.1-36.8 134 71.1 63.2-77.9
Other 145 15 7.5 4.4-12.7 130 92.5 87.3-95.6
AGE
18-44 363 17 4.2 2.4- 7.1 346 95.8 92.9-97.6
45-64 291 92 32.3 26.5-38.6 199 67.7 61.4-73.5
65+ 212 110 51.7 42.9-60.4 102 48.3 39.6-57.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 277 87 27.7 22.2-34.0 190 72.3 66.0-77.8
Some Post-H.S. 189 56 24.0 18.0-31.2 133 76.0 68.8-82.0
College Graduate 415 78 15.3 11.9-19.4 337 84.7 80.6-88.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 308 106 30.9 25.4-37.0 202 69.1 63.0-74.6
$50,000+ 392 74 18.1 14.1-23.0 318 81.9 77.0-85.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 173 41 18.0 12.5-25.2 132 82.0 74.8-87.5

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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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