2024 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 4,309 1,304 27.9 26.4-29.6 3,005 72.1 70.4-73.6
Medicaid Region 6 481 169 31.0 26.4-36.0 312 69.0 64.0-73.6
GENDER
Male 217 72 29.9 23.3-37.4 145 70.1 62.6-76.7
Female 264 97 32.2 26.0-39.0 167 67.8 61.0-74.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 315 119 30.6 25.2-36.7 196 69.4 63.3-74.8
Non-Hispanic Black 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 61 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 170 27 14.7 9.7-21.6 143 85.3 78.4-90.3
45-64 160 68 43.8 35.0-53.0 92 56.2 47.0-65.0
65+ 146 72 45.4 35.8-55.4 74 54.6 44.6-64.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 164 51 30.0 22.6-38.6 113 70.0 61.4-77.4
Some Post-H.S. 137 52 32.1 24.1-41.3 85 67.9 58.7-75.9
College Graduate 177 65 31.7 24.3-40.2 112 68.3 59.8-75.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 149 53 31.1 23.1-40.4 96 68.9 59.6-76.9
$50,000+ 206 75 32.3 25.5-40.1 131 67.7 59.9-74.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 119 40 29.4 20.9-39.8 79 70.6 60.2-79.1

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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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