2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 582 202 33.4 29.1-38.0 380 66.6 62.0-70.9
GENDER
Male 278 89 30.9 25.1-37.4 189 69.1 62.6-74.9
Female 304 113 35.7 29.5-42.5 191 64.3 57.5-70.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 365 139 35.6 30.3-41.3 226 64.4 58.7-69.7
Non-Hispanic Black 102 32 27.4 18.7-38.3 70 72.6 61.7-81.3
Other 106 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 222 25 10.3 6.7-15.5 197 89.7 84.5-93.3
45-64 185 89 54.5 46.2-62.5 96 45.5 37.5-53.8
65+ 170 86 48.8 39.9-57.7 84 51.2 42.3-60.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 208 69 32.2 25.3-40.0 139 67.8 60.0-74.7
Some Post-H.S. 164 65 39.1 30.9-48.0 99 60.9 52.0-69.1
College Graduate 208 68 29.2 23.0-36.3 140 70.8 63.7-77.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 183 66 31.8 24.6-40.1 117 68.2 59.9-75.4
$50,000+ 265 88 34.0 27.8-40.8 177 66.0 59.2-72.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 128 47 34.8 25.2-45.8 81 65.2 54.2-74.8

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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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