2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 956 246 21.7 18.8-25.0 710 78.3 75.0-81.2
GENDER
Male 438 93 18.2 14.4-22.7 345 81.8 77.3-85.6
Female 518 153 24.9 20.7-29.7 365 75.1 70.3-79.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 569 164 24.6 20.7-28.9 405 75.4 71.1-79.3
Non-Hispanic Black 185 56 24.3 17.9-32.1 129 75.7 67.9-82.1
Other 187 21 7.2 4.1-12.3 166 92.8 87.7-95.9
AGE
18-44 377 26 6.7 4.3-10.4 351 93.3 89.6-95.7
45-64 310 89 29.6 23.8-36.1 221 70.4 63.9-76.2
65+ 258 130 45.0 36.9-53.4 128 55.0 46.6-63.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 234 65 22.3 16.8-29.0 169 77.7 71.0-83.2
Some Post-H.S. 213 78 27.9 21.7-35.2 135 72.1 64.8-78.3
College Graduate 505 103 17.2 13.7-21.4 402 82.8 78.6-86.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 243 80 29.8 23.4-37.2 163 70.2 62.8-76.6
$50,000+ 525 117 18.0 14.6-21.9 408 82.0 78.1-85.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 179 44 20.0 14.0-27.8 135 80.0 72.2-86.0

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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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