2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

Not including kidney stones, bladder infection or incontinence, were you (Ever told) you have kidney disease?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,714 184 3.2 2.6- 3.9 4,530 96.8 96.1-97.4
GENDER
Male 2,195 93 3.6 2.7- 4.8 2,102 96.4 95.2-97.3
Female 2,519 91 2.8 2.1- 3.6 2,428 97.2 96.4-97.9
Have Health Insurance
Yes 4,084 172 3.4 2.8- 4.2 3,912 96.6 95.8-97.2
No 628 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,265 49 3.3 2.4- 4.6 1,216 96.7 95.4-97.6
Overweight 1,541 58 3.1 2.2- 4.4 1,483 96.9 95.6-97.8
Obese 1,402 59 3.3 2.3- 4.9 1,343 96.7 95.1-97.7
Current Smoker
Yes 755 28 3.2 2.1- 4.8 727 96.8 95.2-97.9
No 3,800 153 3.3 2.7- 4.1 3,647 96.7 95.9-97.3
History of CVD**
Yes 596 66 11.4 8.1-15.7 530 88.6 84.3-91.9
No 4,099 116 2.2 1.8- 2.8 3,983 97.8 97.2-98.2
Binge Drinker
Yes 567 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,793 166 3.5 2.9- 4.3 3,627 96.5 95.7-97.1
Heavy Drinker
Yes 257 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 4,088 168 3.3 2.7- 4.1 3,920 96.7 95.9-97.3
COPD
Yes 425 44 8.6 6.0-12.1 381 91.4 87.9-94.0
No 4,276 138 2.7 2.1- 3.4 4,138 97.3 96.6-97.9
Current Asthma
Yes 430 36 5.9 4.0- 8.6 394 94.1 91.4-96.0
No 4,269 146 2.9 2.3- 3.6 4,123 97.1 96.4-97.7
Diabetes
Yes 678 80 10.3 7.6-13.7 598 89.7 86.3-92.4
No 4,042 104 2.2 1.7- 2.8 3,938 97.8 97.2-98.3
Functional Disability
Yes 1,457 115 7.3 5.7- 9.4 1,342 92.7 90.6-94.3
No 3,126 67 1.6 1.2- 2.2 3,059 98.4 97.8-98.8
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,551 174 11.0 9.0-13.2 1,377 89.0 86.8-91.0
No 3,169 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

†Chronic diseases include heart disease (heart attack/stoke/angina), current asthma, skin cancer, other cancer, COPD, arthritis, depression, kidney disease and diabetes.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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