2022 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 4,478 1,308 28.0 26.2-29.8 3,170 72.0 70.2-73.8
Medicaid Region 3 681 160 24.0 20.1-28.5 521 76.0 71.5-79.9
GENDER
Male 325 65 21.0 15.8-27.4 260 79.0 72.6-84.2
Female 356 95 26.9 21.2-33.5 261 73.1 66.5-78.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 398 106 26.2 21.0-32.1 292 73.8 67.9-79.0
Non-Hispanic Black 141 36 25.5 18.0-34.8 105 74.5 65.2-82.0
Other 128 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 304 16 6.8 3.6-12.2 288 93.2 87.8-96.4
45-64 221 69 32.3 25.0-40.7 152 67.7 59.3-75.0
65+ 136 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 186 39 24.6 17.1-34.0 147 75.4 66.0-82.9
Some Post-H.S. 195 58 28.0 20.9-36.3 137 72.0 63.7-79.1
College Graduate 296 62 19.6 14.8-25.5 234 80.4 74.5-85.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 204 53 24.1 17.4-32.2 151 75.9 67.8-82.6
$50,000+ 301 64 22.0 16.8-28.2 237 78.0 71.8-83.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 156 39 28.5 19.3-39.9 117 71.5 60.1-80.7

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2022 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2022 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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