2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

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 3 599 147 19.8 16.6-23.3 452 80.2 76.7-83.4
GENDER
Male 295 64 17.9 13.8-22.8 231 82.1 77.2-86.2
Female 304 83 21.5 17.0-26.9 221 78.5 73.1-83.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 358 100 21.7 17.6-26.4 258 78.3 73.6-82.4
Non-Hispanic Black 126 27 15.8 10.3-23.3 99 84.2 76.7-89.7
Other 115 20 16.9 10.1-26.8 95 83.1 73.2-89.9
AGE
18-44 225 12 5.2 2.8- 9.3 213 94.8 90.7-97.2
45-64 210 58 27.4 21.1-34.7 152 72.6 65.3-78.9
65+ 151 77 45.6 36.8-54.8 74 54.4 45.2-63.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 181 47 21.9 16.2-29.0 134 78.1 71.0-83.8
Some Post-H.S. 170 46 20.9 15.3-27.8 124 79.1 72.2-84.7
College Graduate 248 54 16.4 12.3-21.5 194 83.6 78.5-87.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 212 63 23.2 17.7-29.7 149 76.8 70.3-82.3
$50,000+ 254 49 17.0 12.6-22.5 205 83.0 77.5-87.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 122 34 21.3 14.6-30.1 88 78.7 69.9-85.4

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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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