2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 529 151 25.7 21.3-30.7 378 74.3 69.3-78.7
GENDER
Male 253 54 20.7 14.8-28.2 199 79.3 71.8-85.2
Female 276 97 30.3 24.2-37.3 179 69.7 62.7-75.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 300 103 32.4 26.1-39.5 197 67.6 60.5-73.9
Non-Hispanic Black 115 33 22.3 14.6-32.5 82 77.7 67.5-85.4
Other 102 13 9.6 4.4-20.0 89 90.4 80.0-95.6
AGE
18-44 213 17 7.6 4.4-12.9 196 92.4 87.1-95.6
45-64 169 59 39.0 29.7-49.1 110 61.0 50.9-70.3
65+ 136 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 152 37 26.4 18.4-36.4 115 73.6 63.6-81.6
Some Post-H.S. 144 50 25.8 18.5-34.8 94 74.2 65.2-81.5
College Graduate 228 62 24.7 18.6-32.1 166 75.3 67.9-81.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 157 47 31.1 22.1-41.9 110 68.9 58.1-77.9
$50,000+ 245 62 21.1 15.7-27.7 183 78.9 72.3-84.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 120 38 28.4 19.5-39.4 82 71.6 60.6-80.5

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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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