2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 634 182 28.1 23.4-33.4 452 71.9 66.6-76.6
GENDER
Male 307 76 22.2 17.3-28.1 231 77.8 71.9-82.7
Female 327 106 33.6 26.1-42.0 221 66.4 58.0-73.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 428 134 31.3 25.1-38.3 294 68.7 61.7-74.9
Non-Hispanic Black 105 *** *** *** 68 70.1 59.0-79.3
Other 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 204 19 9.2 5.1-16.1 185 90.8 83.9-94.9
45-64 234 77 35.7 27.7-44.5 157 64.3 55.5-72.3
65+ 179 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 192 59 35.1 25.7-45.9 133 64.9 54.1-74.3
Some Post-H.S. 181 54 24.3 18.0-31.8 127 75.7 68.2-82.0
College Graduate 258 67 22.1 16.8-28.5 191 77.9 71.5-83.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 210 74 36.7 27.2-47.3 136 63.3 52.7-72.8
$50,000+ 254 58 20.2 15.2-26.3 196 79.8 73.7-84.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 164 48 28.1 19.6-38.6 116 71.9 61.4-80.4

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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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