2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 742 251 30.1 26.4-34.1 491 69.9 65.9-73.6
GENDER
Male 349 105 26.9 22.0-32.4 244 73.1 67.6-78.0
Female 393 146 33.1 27.4-39.3 247 66.9 60.7-72.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 532 201 36.9 32.1-41.9 331 63.1 58.1-67.9
Non-Hispanic Black 116 30 17.3 11.3-25.5 86 82.7 74.5-88.7
Other 80 15 10.3 5.6-18.3 65 89.7 81.7-94.4
AGE
18-44 261 31 9.1 6.2-13.1 230 90.9 86.9-93.8
45-64 260 106 41.9 34.6-49.5 154 58.1 50.5-65.4
65+ 206 110 52.4 43.9-60.8 96 47.6 39.2-56.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 239 90 36.2 29.3-43.7 149 63.8 56.3-70.7
Some Post-H.S. 218 82 28.2 22.3-34.9 136 71.8 65.1-77.7
College Graduate 285 79 22.9 18.1-28.6 206 77.1 71.4-81.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 265 111 35.5 29.2-42.4 154 64.5 57.6-70.8
$50,000+ 308 78 22.0 17.2-27.6 230 78.0 72.4-82.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 166 61 33.5 24.7-43.5 105 66.5 56.5-75.3

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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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