2023 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 4,066 1,303 27.2 25.4-29.1 2,763 72.8 70.9-74.6
Medicaid Region 1 503 168 26.6 21.9-32.0 335 73.4 68.0-78.1
GENDER
Male 210 57 21.1 14.8-29.2 153 78.9 70.8-85.2
Female 293 111 31.8 25.1-39.4 182 68.2 60.6-74.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 412 143 29.0 23.6-35.1 269 71.0 64.9-76.4
Non-Hispanic Black 26 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 61 13 6.8 3.0-15.0 48 93.2 85.0-97.0
AGE
18-44 122 13 12.3 7.0-20.7 109 87.7 79.3-93.0
45-64 165 55 22.4 15.6-31.1 110 77.6 68.9-84.4
65+ 206 *** *** *** 109 50.2 40.0-60.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 141 53 28.4 19.7-39.0 88 71.6 61.0-80.3
Some Post-H.S. 155 51 21.8 15.3-30.1 104 78.2 69.9-84.7
College Graduate 206 63 29.6 22.1-38.4 143 70.4 61.6-77.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 171 61 25.8 17.8-35.9 110 74.2 64.1-82.2
$50,000+ 206 54 21.9 15.8-29.7 152 78.1 70.3-84.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 119 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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