2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 1,142 278 23.3 20.5-26.4 864 76.7 73.6-79.5
GENDER
Male 511 99 19.1 15.4-23.4 412 80.9 76.6-84.6
Female 631 179 27.3 23.3-31.7 452 72.7 68.3-76.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 649 186 26.1 22.5-30.1 463 73.9 69.9-77.5
Non-Hispanic Black 213 62 28.5 21.7-36.3 151 71.5 63.7-78.3
Other 266 28 9.9 6.0-15.8 238 90.1 84.2-94.0
AGE
18-44 495 32 7.6 5.1-11.3 463 92.4 88.7-94.9
45-64 368 103 26.0 21.3-31.4 265 74.0 68.6-78.7
65+ 256 140 56.3 48.6-63.6 116 43.7 36.4-51.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 317 77 23.2 18.0-29.3 240 76.8 70.7-82.0
Some Post-H.S. 272 78 27.9 22.2-34.3 194 72.1 65.7-77.8
College Graduate 549 123 19.9 16.6-23.6 426 80.1 76.4-83.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 309 78 22.6 17.5-28.6 231 77.4 71.4-82.5
$50,000+ 545 121 21.8 18.0-26.1 424 78.2 73.9-82.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 278 79 28.0 22.0-34.8 199 72.0 65.2-78.0

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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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