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2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

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 2 500 163 31.9 27.1-37.1 337 68.1 62.9-72.9
GENDER
Male 244 75 30.8 24.1-38.4 169 69.2 61.6-75.9
Female 256 88 33.0 26.4-40.3 168 67.0 59.7-73.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 380 134 36.0 30.4-42.0 246 64.0 58.0-69.6
Non-Hispanic Black 62 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 58 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 154 21 16.8 10.7-25.2 133 83.2 74.8-89.3
45-64 191 66 37.0 29.4-45.5 125 63.0 54.5-70.6
65+ 147 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 171 65 37.1 29.1-45.9 106 62.9 54.1-70.9
Some Post-H.S. 157 50 30.1 22.1-39.6 107 69.9 60.4-77.9
College Graduate 171 48 25.3 18.7-33.3 123 74.7 66.7-81.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 201 75 36.8 29.2-45.1 126 63.2 54.9-70.8
$50,000+ 184 41 21.6 15.3-29.6 143 78.4 70.4-84.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 110 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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