2021 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 4,913 1,520 27.3 25.8-28.9 3,393 72.7 71.1-74.2
Medicaid Region 4 1,049 241 23.3 20.4-26.4 808 76.7 73.6-79.6
GENDER
Male 514 101 21.4 17.4-26.0 413 78.6 74.0-82.6
Female 535 140 25.0 21.1-29.3 395 75.0 70.7-78.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 617 157 25.8 22.0-29.9 460 74.2 70.1-78.0
Non-Hispanic Black 217 66 29.5 23.0-37.0 151 70.5 63.0-77.0
Other 196 15 5.7 3.2- 9.9 181 94.3 90.1-96.8
AGE
18-44 459 33 6.8 4.7- 9.7 426 93.2 90.3-95.3
45-64 339 94 31.4 25.8-37.5 245 68.6 62.5-74.2
65+ 228 110 50.9 43.2-58.6 118 49.1 41.4-56.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 274 59 24.4 18.8-30.9 215 75.6 69.1-81.2
Some Post-H.S. 218 53 23.9 18.4-30.5 165 76.1 69.5-81.6
College Graduate 550 126 21.7 18.2-25.6 424 78.3 74.4-81.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 327 91 28.7 23.3-34.9 236 71.3 65.1-76.7
$50,000+ 506 101 19.5 15.8-23.7 405 80.5 76.3-84.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 212 49 24.0 18.0-31.3 163 76.0 68.7-82.0

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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