2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 1 500 191 34.6 29.5-40.1 309 65.4 59.9-70.5
GENDER
Male 228 79 32.5 24.9-41.1 149 67.5 58.9-75.1
Female 272 112 36.6 29.9-43.9 160 63.4 56.1-70.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 426 173 37.6 32.0-43.7 253 62.4 56.3-68.0
Non-Hispanic Black 21 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 46 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 130 19 15.4 9.4-24.2 111 84.6 75.8-90.6
45-64 179 67 38.6 29.4-48.8 112 61.4 51.2-70.6
65+ 178 101 58.7 49.3-67.6 77 41.3 32.4-50.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 149 62 38.2 28.7-48.6 87 61.8 51.4-71.3
Some Post-H.S. 144 57 33.9 25.3-43.8 87 66.1 56.2-74.7
College Graduate 207 72 30.5 23.5-38.6 135 69.5 61.4-76.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 194 90 41.1 32.2-50.6 104 58.9 49.4-67.8
$50,000+ 211 65 28.0 21.3-35.8 146 72.0 64.2-78.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 92 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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