2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 589 194 29.4 25.0-34.3 395 70.6 65.7-75.0
GENDER
Male 268 74 25.2 19.2-32.3 194 74.8 67.7-80.8
Female 321 120 33.5 27.3-40.4 201 66.5 59.6-72.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 372 127 28.3 23.2-34.0 245 71.7 66.0-76.8
Non-Hispanic Black 126 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 76 12 12.0 6.0-22.5 64 88.0 77.5-94.0
AGE
18-44 210 23 7.8 5.0-11.9 187 92.2 88.1-95.0
45-64 184 66 39.6 30.3-49.8 118 60.4 50.2-69.7
65+ 184 102 58.7 49.3-67.5 82 41.3 32.5-50.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 212 77 31.9 24.8-39.9 135 68.1 60.1-75.2
Some Post-H.S. 177 58 28.1 20.9-36.8 119 71.9 63.2-79.1
College Graduate 198 59 25.9 19.5-33.6 139 74.1 66.4-80.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 232 94 34.7 27.5-42.7 138 65.3 57.3-72.5
$50,000+ 225 58 22.5 16.8-29.4 167 77.5 70.6-83.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 128 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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