2019 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Arthritis

In this next question, we are referring to work for pay. Do arthritis or joint symptoms now
affect whether you work, the type of work you do, or the amount of work you do?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,294 444 35.4 32.3-38.6 850 64.6 61.4-67.7
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 143 52 33.0 24.8-42.5 91 67.0 57.5-75.2
Region 3 115 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 222 84 39.9 32.8-47.5 138 60.1 52.5-67.2
Region 5 173 49 28.4 21.0-37.0 124 71.6 63.0-79.0
Region 6 148 62 42.3 33.6-51.6 86 57.7 48.4-66.4
Region 7 159 44 32.9 24.7-42.2 115 67.1 57.8-75.3
Region 8 187 68 38.4 30.3-47.2 119 61.6 52.8-69.7
Region 9 & 10 147 48 36.4 27.7-46.0 99 63.6 54.0-72.3
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 493 176 38.5 33.3-44.0 317 61.5 56.0-66.7
Piedmont 618 205 34.6 30.3-39.2 413 65.4 60.8-69.7
Western NC 183 63 31.7 24.3-40.1 120 68.3 59.9-75.7
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 109 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Northwest 213 78 38.3 30.6-46.7 135 61.7 53.3-69.4
Charlotte 161 59 38.6 30.3-47.7 102 61.4 52.3-69.7
Greensboro 133 42 29.4 21.2-39.1 91 70.6 60.9-78.8
Southern Regional 204 86 43.6 35.8-51.6 118 56.4 48.4-64.2
Southeast 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Wake 176 44 27.5 20.5-35.7 132 72.5 64.3-79.5
Area L & Eastern 215 73 38.8 31.1-47.0 142 61.2 53.0-68.9
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 174 65 34.8 27.0-43.5 109 65.2 56.5-73.0
Region 2 161 54 36.5 27.7-46.3 107 63.5 53.7-72.3
Region 3 145 54 38.9 30.2-48.3 91 61.1 51.7-69.8
Region 4 154 44 29.4 21.5-39.0 110 70.6 61.0-78.5
Region 5 198 84 39.6 31.7-48.0 114 60.4 52.0-68.3
Region 6 105 24 24.1 16.3-34.1 81 75.9 65.9-83.7

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*For those with arthritis, this question was asked regardless of the their employment status.

See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

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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