2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 529 179 28.2 23.9-33.1 350 71.8 66.9-76.1
GENDER
Male 235 69 26.6 20.2-34.0 166 73.4 66.0-79.8
Female 294 110 29.9 24.1-36.4 184 70.1 63.6-75.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 327 119 31.5 25.7-37.9 208 68.5 62.1-74.3
Non-Hispanic Black 122 42 27.0 18.8-37.1 80 73.0 62.9-81.2
Other 73 16 15.0 7.9-26.6 57 85.0 73.4-92.1
AGE
18-44 178 17 9.1 5.0-15.9 161 90.9 84.1-95.0
45-64 178 63 33.8 26.0-42.6 115 66.2 57.4-74.0
65+ 172 98 57.5 47.7-66.7 74 42.5 33.3-52.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 176 63 26.7 20.0-34.7 113 73.3 65.3-80.0
Some Post-H.S. 168 66 32.7 25.0-41.4 102 67.3 58.6-75.0
College Graduate 182 49 23.4 16.8-31.7 133 76.6 68.3-83.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 188 73 31.6 24.1-40.1 115 68.4 59.9-75.9
$50,000+ 233 75 30.8 24.0-38.5 158 69.2 61.5-76.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 103 31 19.0 12.1-28.6 72 81.0 71.4-87.9

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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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