2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 752 205 25.6 22.3-29.2 547 74.4 70.8-77.7
GENDER
Male 364 83 21.1 16.9-26.1 281 78.9 73.9-83.1
Female 388 122 29.8 25.0-35.1 266 70.2 64.9-75.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 477 147 29.7 25.4-34.5 330 70.3 65.5-74.6
Non-Hispanic Black 134 41 26.8 19.4-35.6 93 73.2 64.4-80.6
Other 123 15 11.0 6.0-19.4 108 89.0 80.6-94.0
AGE
18-44 302 25 8.2 5.4-12.4 277 91.8 87.6-94.6
45-64 234 75 32.5 26.2-39.5 159 67.5 60.5-73.8
65+ 191 101 59.3 51.2-66.9 90 40.7 33.1-48.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 230 72 25.6 20.1-32.1 158 74.4 67.9-79.9
Some Post-H.S. 202 68 32.9 26.3-40.3 134 67.1 59.7-73.7
College Graduate 316 64 17.5 13.6-22.2 252 82.5 77.8-86.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 229 69 27.9 21.8-34.9 160 72.1 65.1-78.2
$50,000+ 358 87 22.8 18.4-27.9 271 77.2 72.1-81.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 160 47 28.2 21.2-36.5 113 71.8 63.5-78.8

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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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