2021 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 4,913 1,520 27.3 25.8-28.9 3,393 72.7 71.1-74.2
Medicaid Region 6 665 201 24.8 21.3-28.8 464 75.2 71.2-78.7
GENDER
Male 297 66 16.9 13.0-21.7 231 83.1 78.3-87.0
Female 368 135 32.7 27.1-38.7 233 67.3 61.3-72.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 411 131 26.5 21.9-31.8 280 73.5 68.2-78.1
Non-Hispanic Black 147 49 25.3 18.4-33.6 98 74.7 66.4-81.6
Other 91 17 17.2 10.2-27.4 74 82.8 72.6-89.8
AGE
18-44 219 20 6.7 4.1-10.6 199 93.3 89.4-95.9
45-64 218 75 35.4 28.1-43.3 143 64.6 56.7-71.9
65+ 209 103 47.6 39.8-55.5 106 52.4 44.5-60.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 239 68 22.4 17.2-28.6 171 77.6 71.4-82.8
Some Post-H.S. 185 69 28.0 21.4-35.8 116 72.0 64.2-78.6
College Graduate 234 63 24.7 18.8-31.7 171 75.3 68.3-81.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 253 91 30.1 24.1-37.0 162 69.9 63.0-75.9
$50,000+ 252 63 19.9 15.0-26.0 189 80.1 74.0-85.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 157 47 24.3 17.3-33.1 110 75.7 66.9-82.7

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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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