2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 613 191 26.7 22.8-31.0 422 73.3 69.0-77.2
GENDER
Male 277 67 23.0 17.6-29.4 210 77.0 70.6-82.4
Female 336 124 30.1 24.6-36.2 212 69.9 63.8-75.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 395 155 33.7 28.5-39.2 240 66.3 60.8-71.5
Non-Hispanic Black 103 20 12.3 7.4-19.7 83 87.7 80.3-92.6
Other 112 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 214 30 10.7 7.3-15.5 184 89.3 84.5-92.7
45-64 201 59 30.2 23.2-38.3 142 69.8 61.7-76.8
65+ 184 98 49.4 40.6-58.3 86 50.6 41.7-59.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 206 57 26.7 20.0-34.7 149 73.3 65.3-80.0
Some Post-H.S. 166 57 26.1 19.6-33.9 109 73.9 66.1-80.4
College Graduate 235 76 27.2 21.5-33.9 159 72.8 66.1-78.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 205 70 29.5 22.8-37.2 135 70.5 62.8-77.2
$50,000+ 243 63 20.3 15.4-26.2 180 79.7 73.8-84.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 156 56 32.0 23.9-41.2 100 68.0 58.8-76.1

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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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