2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 530 190 31.3 26.7-36.3 340 68.7 63.7-73.3
GENDER
Male 255 74 26.5 19.7-34.7 181 73.5 65.3-80.3
Female 275 116 36.0 29.9-42.6 159 64.0 57.4-70.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 360 127 29.0 24.2-34.2 233 71.0 65.8-75.8
Non-Hispanic Black 70 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 100 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 181 22 12.7 7.0-22.1 159 87.3 77.9-93.0
45-64 162 62 37.4 29.4-46.2 100 62.6 53.8-70.6
65+ 178 105 63.1 54.5-70.9 73 36.9 29.1-45.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 212 77 27.8 21.6-34.8 135 72.2 65.2-78.4
Some Post-H.S. 166 65 37.7 28.6-47.8 101 62.3 52.2-71.4
College Graduate 151 48 28.6 21.2-37.4 103 71.4 62.6-78.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 268 102 30.8 24.9-37.4 166 69.2 62.6-75.1
$50,000+ 159 50 33.9 24.6-44.7 109 66.1 55.3-75.4
Don't know/Not Sure 91 34 29.2 20.1-40.5 57 70.8 59.5-79.9

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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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