2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 972 369 35.2 30.4-40.2 603 64.8 59.8-69.6
GENDER
Male 407 121 30.7 23.5-39.0 286 69.3 61.0-76.5
Female 565 248 39.3 33.2-45.7 317 60.7 54.3-66.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 410 166 38.3 32.3-44.7 244 61.7 55.3-67.7
Non-Hispanic Black 164 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 384 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 320 48 15.4 9.7-23.6 272 84.6 76.4-90.3
45-64 346 145 44.0 35.4-52.9 201 56.0 47.1-64.6
65+ 291 172 62.6 53.0-71.4 119 37.4 28.6-47.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 318 128 33.1 25.0-42.3 190 66.9 57.7-75.0
Some Post-H.S. 301 126 38.7 30.3-47.7 175 61.3 52.3-69.7
College Graduate 350 114 33.9 27.1-41.4 236 66.1 58.6-72.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 358 150 36.8 28.8-45.6 208 63.2 54.4-71.2
$50,000+ 392 130 33.9 27.6-40.9 262 66.1 59.1-72.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 213 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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