2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 Demographics

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
Region 7 619 151 22.3 18.8-26.2 468 77.7 73.8-81.2
GENDER
Male 309 59 17.6 13.3-22.8 250 82.4 77.2-86.7
Female 310 92 26.7 21.4-32.7 218 73.3 67.3-78.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 368 93 22.7 18.4-27.7 275 77.3 72.3-81.6
Non-Hispanic Black 144 48 28.8 21.0-38.2 96 71.2 61.8-79.0
Other 107 *** *** *** 97 92.4 85.8-96.1
AGE
18-44 251 *** *** *** 242 96.8 93.0-98.6
45-64 218 68 33.7 27.0-41.1 150 66.3 58.9-73.0
65+ 139 72 53.5 43.3-63.3 67 46.5 36.7-56.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 202 60 27.2 20.8-34.6 142 72.8 65.4-79.2
Some Post-H.S. 127 38 25.3 18.0-34.5 89 74.7 65.5-82.0
College Graduate 289 53 15.6 11.6-20.6 236 84.4 79.4-88.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 203 69 32.8 26.0-40.4 134 67.2 59.6-74.0
$50,000+ 276 53 18.4 13.8-24.2 223 81.6 75.8-86.2
Don't know/Not Sure 132 29 18.0 11.5-26.9 103 82.0 73.1-88.5

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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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