2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 Demographics

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
Region 7 676 176 22.1 18.6-26.0 500 77.9 74.0-81.4
GENDER
Male 305 63 18.2 13.6-23.9 242 81.8 76.1-86.4
Female 371 113 25.7 20.7-31.5 258 74.3 68.5-79.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 375 108 23.4 18.8-28.7 267 76.6 71.3-81.2
Non-Hispanic Black 144 46 27.2 19.5-36.4 98 72.8 63.6-80.5
Other 144 18 8.0 4.2-14.7 126 92.0 85.3-95.8
AGE
18-44 264 16 6.1 3.3-11.0 248 93.9 89.0-96.7
45-64 226 63 28.6 21.8-36.5 163 71.4 63.5-78.2
65+ 181 96 49.2 39.9-58.5 85 50.8 41.5-60.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 177 48 21.7 15.4-29.8 129 78.3 70.2-84.6
Some Post-H.S. 151 58 30.4 22.6-39.7 93 69.6 60.3-77.4
College Graduate 346 70 17.0 13.0-21.9 276 83.0 78.1-87.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 176 57 30.2 22.4-39.2 119 69.8 60.8-77.6
$50,000+ 366 81 17.4 13.5-22.3 285 82.6 77.7-86.5
Don't know/Not Sure 130 36 22.4 15.1-31.9 94 77.6 68.1-84.9

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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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