2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 4,309 1,304 27.9 26.4-29.6 3,005 72.1 70.4-73.6
Medicaid Region 1 609 235 35.5 30.9-40.4 374 64.5 59.6-69.1
GENDER
Male 276 102 34.3 28.1-41.2 174 65.7 58.8-71.9
Female 333 133 36.6 30.1-43.7 200 63.4 56.3-69.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 497 211 38.7 33.6-44.2 286 61.3 55.8-66.4
Non-Hispanic Black 34 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 71 11 15.0 7.7-27.1 60 85.0 72.9-92.3
AGE
18-44 159 17 11.9 6.8-20.0 142 88.1 80.0-93.2
45-64 191 77 43.6 35.7-51.9 114 56.4 48.1-64.3
65+ 252 138 57.6 49.4-65.4 114 42.4 34.6-50.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 186 81 44.2 35.6-53.1 105 55.8 46.9-64.4
Some Post-H.S. 175 72 34.2 26.7-42.7 103 65.8 57.3-73.3
College Graduate 246 81 25.7 20.1-32.2 165 74.3 67.8-79.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 213 94 40.6 32.8-48.9 119 59.4 51.1-67.2
$50,000+ 242 85 31.3 25.0-38.3 157 68.7 61.7-75.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 148 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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