2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 573 156 24.9 21.0-29.3 417 75.1 70.7-79.0
GENDER
Male 262 58 20.8 15.4-27.5 204 79.2 72.5-84.6
Female 311 98 28.7 23.3-34.7 213 71.3 65.3-76.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 342 100 28.0 22.6-34.0 242 72.0 66.0-77.4
Non-Hispanic Black 139 40 25.2 18.3-33.7 99 74.8 66.3-81.7
Other 92 16 11.2 6.1-19.6 76 88.8 80.4-93.9
AGE
18-44 239 17 7.8 4.7-12.7 222 92.2 87.3-95.3
45-64 177 55 31.7 23.9-40.7 122 68.3 59.3-76.1
65+ 148 79 55.5 45.9-64.8 69 44.5 35.2-54.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 165 47 27.5 20.1-36.3 118 72.5 63.7-79.9
Some Post-H.S. 151 46 26.2 19.2-34.7 105 73.8 65.3-80.8
College Graduate 254 62 20.7 16.0-26.3 192 79.3 73.7-84.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 197 65 27.4 21.3-34.4 132 72.6 65.6-78.7
$50,000+ 240 49 20.0 14.5-26.9 191 80.0 73.1-85.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 130 39 30.7 21.4-41.8 91 69.3 58.2-78.6

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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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