2023 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 4,066 1,303 27.2 25.4-29.1 2,763 72.8 70.9-74.6
Medicaid Region 2 577 190 27.8 23.5-32.6 387 72.2 67.4-76.5
GENDER
Male 248 62 22.8 17.1-29.6 186 77.2 70.4-82.9
Female 329 128 32.4 26.2-39.4 201 67.6 60.6-73.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 408 150 32.9 27.3-38.9 258 67.1 61.1-72.7
Non-Hispanic Black 85 21 19.4 11.4-31.1 64 80.6 68.9-88.6
Other 76 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 183 19 7.2 4.4-11.5 164 92.8 88.5-95.6
45-64 204 72 35.6 27.5-44.5 132 64.4 55.5-72.5
65+ 179 96 56.8 46.2-66.8 83 43.2 33.2-53.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 187 64 30.6 23.1-39.2 123 69.4 60.8-76.9
Some Post-H.S. 141 48 28.3 20.3-37.9 93 71.7 62.1-79.7
College Graduate 245 77 23.8 18.4-30.1 168 76.2 69.9-81.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 186 71 32.3 24.8-40.8 115 67.7 59.2-75.2
$50,000+ 245 64 22.7 16.9-29.9 181 77.3 70.1-83.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 138 *** *** *** 89 70.0 59.0-79.1

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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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