2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Arthritis

Please think about the past 30 days, keeping in mind all of your joint pain or aching and whether or not you have taken medication.
DURING THE PAST 30 DAYS, how bad was your joint pain ON AVERAGE on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is no pain or aching and 10 is pain or aching as bad as it can be?

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  Total
Respond.^		 No pain(0) Mild pain(1-3) Moderate pain(4-6) Severe pain(7-10)
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,501 115 7.8 6.3- 9.7 381 24.6 22.0-27.4 495 33.4 30.3-36.6 510 34.3 31.2-37.4
Medicaid Region 5 439 35 8.1 5.4-11.8 86 20.9 16.4-26.2 142 33.5 28.1-39.3 176 37.6 32.0-43.6
GENDER
Male 169 18 10.1 6.0-16.4 32 21.0 14.3-29.7 60 38.1 29.8-47.3 59 30.8 23.1-39.8
Female 270 17 6.5 3.6-11.6 54 20.8 15.3-27.8 82 29.9 23.2-37.5 117 42.8 35.1-50.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 231 23 9.4 5.8-14.9 60 24.1 18.2-31.2 88 39.0 31.7-46.9 60 27.4 21.0-34.9
Non-Hispanic Black 122 *** *** *** 15 17.1 9.9-28.0 29 24.5 16.5-34.9 *** *** ***
Other 82 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 41 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 147 *** *** *** 24 19.0 12.3-28.3 51 32.2 24.2-41.4 63 41.7 32.7-51.4
65+ 245 26 12.5 7.8-19.3 54 24.6 18.3-32.1 68 27.1 20.6-34.7 97 35.9 28.3-44.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 170 15 9.9 5.6-17.1 26 19.8 13.0-29.0 45 28.7 20.8-38.2 84 41.5 32.5-51.0
Some Post-H.S. 133 *** *** *** 25 19.0 12.0-28.6 47 37.9 28.3-48.5 *** *** ***
College Graduate 136 12 11.9 6.5-20.7 35 26.0 18.5-35.2 50 36.3 27.5-46.0 39 25.8 18.0-35.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 197 17 8.2 4.6-14.3 26 13.7 8.8-20.8 63 33.8 26.1-42.6 91 44.2 35.6-53.3
$50,000+ 132 14 10.3 5.6-18.1 34 27.8 19.3-38.3 51 39.1 29.5-49.6 33 22.8 15.0-33.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 109 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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