2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

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
Region 5 633 170 26.6 22.7-30.9 463 73.4 69.1-77.3
GENDER
Male 271 51 19.9 14.7-26.3 220 80.1 73.7-85.3
Female 362 119 32.8 27.2-38.9 243 67.2 61.1-72.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 367 117 31.6 26.4-37.3 250 68.4 62.7-73.6
Non-Hispanic Black 123 31 22.8 15.2-32.9 92 77.2 67.1-84.8
Other 136 19 13.8 7.1-25.0 117 86.2 75.0-92.9
AGE
18-44 262 28 10.0 6.5-14.9 234 90.0 85.1-93.5
45-64 196 49 25.1 18.8-32.7 147 74.9 67.3-81.2
65+ 165 91 59.7 50.8-68.0 74 40.3 32.0-49.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 188 48 28.2 20.9-36.9 140 71.8 63.1-79.1
Some Post-H.S. 155 49 28.7 21.5-37.2 106 71.3 62.8-78.5
College Graduate 286 73 23.2 18.3-29.0 213 76.8 71.0-81.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 198 50 24.5 18.2-32.1 148 75.5 67.9-81.8
$50,000+ 274 65 21.0 16.0-26.9 209 79.0 73.1-84.0
Don't know/Not Sure 154 54 39.2 30.3-48.9 100 60.8 51.1-69.7

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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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