2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 4,255 1,311 27.0 25.5-28.5 2,944 73.0 71.5-74.5
Medicaid Region 1 526 177 32.1 27.5-37.0 349 67.9 63.0-72.5
GENDER
Male 268 77 27.2 21.4-33.8 191 72.8 66.2-78.6
Female 258 100 36.6 29.9-44.0 158 63.4 56.0-70.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 424 159 34.9 29.8-40.3 265 65.1 59.7-70.2
Non-Hispanic Black 42 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 60 *** *** *** 54 95.6 89.4-98.2
AGE
18-44 158 18 11.9 7.4-18.8 140 88.1 81.2-92.6
45-64 182 67 35.9 28.1-44.5 115 64.1 55.5-71.9
65+ 177 91 55.0 45.9-63.6 86 45.0 36.4-54.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 176 66 38.7 30.6-47.6 110 61.3 52.4-69.4
Some Post-H.S. 154 48 27.2 20.0-36.0 106 72.8 64.0-80.0
College Graduate 196 63 28.3 22.0-35.7 133 71.7 64.3-78.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 233 87 38.5 31.2-46.4 146 61.5 53.6-68.8
$50,000+ 171 48 24.4 18.1-32.0 123 75.6 68.0-81.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 116 39 28.2 19.9-38.3 77 71.8 61.7-80.1

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 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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