2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 882 229 25.1 21.9-28.7 653 74.9 71.3-78.1
GENDER
Male 412 85 20.2 16.0-25.2 327 79.8 74.8-84.0
Female 470 144 29.7 25.0-34.8 326 70.3 65.2-75.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 498 157 30.2 25.7-35.2 341 69.8 64.8-74.3
Non-Hispanic Black 178 50 24.1 18.0-31.6 128 75.9 68.4-82.0
Other 198 22 11.2 6.9-17.5 176 88.8 82.5-93.1
AGE
18-44 364 23 6.7 4.2-10.6 341 93.3 89.4-95.8
45-64 285 85 32.5 26.4-39.2 200 67.5 60.8-73.6
65+ 211 119 60.3 51.7-68.2 92 39.7 31.8-48.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 254 75 29.6 23.4-36.7 179 70.4 63.3-76.6
Some Post-H.S. 223 63 28.0 21.9-35.0 160 72.0 65.0-78.1
College Graduate 399 91 18.8 15.1-23.3 308 81.2 76.7-84.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 245 84 35.4 28.4-43.1 161 64.6 56.9-71.6
$50,000+ 427 94 20.8 16.8-25.4 333 79.2 74.6-83.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 201 51 23.8 17.4-31.8 150 76.2 68.2-82.6

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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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