2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 985 319 30.7 27.1-34.6 666 69.3 65.4-72.9
GENDER
Male 465 134 27.8 22.7-33.6 331 72.2 66.4-77.3
Female 520 185 33.4 28.2-39.1 335 66.6 60.9-71.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 514 188 36.1 31.0-41.4 326 63.9 58.6-69.0
Non-Hispanic Black 186 59 28.0 20.2-37.4 127 72.0 62.6-79.8
Other 259 66 17.7 12.0-25.2 193 82.3 74.8-88.0
AGE
18-44 351 37 9.6 6.5-14.0 314 90.4 86.0-93.5
45-64 325 125 40.0 33.0-47.4 200 60.0 52.6-67.0
65+ 294 154 59.9 52.3-67.1 140 40.1 32.9-47.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 342 111 32.2 25.7-39.5 231 67.8 60.5-74.3
Some Post-H.S. 323 109 29.7 23.8-36.4 214 70.3 63.6-76.2
College Graduate 318 99 30.6 24.7-37.3 219 69.4 62.7-75.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 371 129 33.0 26.9-39.8 242 67.0 60.2-73.1
$50,000+ 386 117 29.1 23.6-35.2 269 70.9 64.8-76.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 219 72 31.2 23.6-39.9 147 68.8 60.1-76.4

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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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