2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 1 521 176 31.0 25.8-36.7 345 69.0 63.3-74.2
GENDER
Male 243 59 27.2 19.9-35.8 184 72.8 64.2-80.1
Female 278 117 34.6 27.4-42.6 161 65.4 57.4-72.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 416 152 33.5 27.5-40.0 264 66.5 60.0-72.5
Non-Hispanic Black 22 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 75 13 11.2 5.2-22.2 62 88.8 77.8-94.8
AGE
18-44 147 12 10.0 5.4-17.7 135 90.0 82.3-94.6
45-64 188 62 38.3 29.2-48.4 126 61.7 51.6-70.8
65+ 177 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 180 59 32.8 23.6-43.6 121 67.2 56.4-76.4
Some Post-H.S. 141 61 35.5 26.7-45.4 80 64.5 54.6-73.3
College Graduate 198 56 22.4 16.8-29.3 142 77.6 70.7-83.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 205 72 32.7 23.7-43.2 133 67.3 56.8-76.3
$50,000+ 198 57 25.2 19.0-32.5 141 74.8 67.5-81.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 118 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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