2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 506 105 23.2 19.1-27.8 401 76.8 72.2-80.9
GENDER
Male 235 37 16.2 11.4-22.6 198 83.8 77.4-88.6
Female 271 68 29.9 23.9-36.7 203 70.1 63.3-76.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 314 74 23.4 18.7-28.9 240 76.6 71.1-81.3
Non-Hispanic Black 103 29 29.3 20.3-40.3 74 70.7 59.7-79.7
Other 89 *** *** *** 87 98.5 93.5-99.7
AGE
18-44 217 17 8.0 4.8-13.1 200 92.0 86.9-95.2
45-64 181 36 23.2 16.4-31.8 145 76.8 68.2-83.6
65+ 99 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 113 26 27.3 18.5-38.4 87 72.7 61.6-81.5
Some Post-H.S. 127 22 20.1 13.2-29.5 105 79.9 70.5-86.8
College Graduate 265 57 22.7 17.7-28.6 208 77.3 71.4-82.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 138 31 26.0 17.9-36.1 107 74.0 63.9-82.1
$50,000+ 267 53 21.6 16.4-27.9 214 78.4 72.1-83.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 89 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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