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?

(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%)
TOTAL 4,700 1,501 27.6 26.1-29.2 3,199 72.4 70.8-73.9
GENDER
Male 2,191 594 23.7 21.6-26.0 1,597 76.3 74.0-78.4
Female 2,509 907 31.2 29.0-33.5 1,602 68.8 66.5-71.0
Have Health Insurance
Yes 4,072 1,387 29.6 27.9-31.3 2,685 70.4 68.7-72.1
No 626 114 16.5 13.2-20.6 512 83.5 79.4-86.8
Body Mass Index
Underweight 79 26 20.7 12.2-32.7 53 79.3 67.3-87.8
Recommended Range 1,260 326 21.8 19.2-24.6 934 78.2 75.4-80.8
Overweight 1,537 483 27.8 25.0-30.7 1,054 72.2 69.3-75.0
Obese 1,399 571 36.5 33.3-39.7 828 63.5 60.3-66.7
Current Smoker
Yes 747 282 34.6 30.4-39.0 465 65.4 61.0-69.6
No 3,796 1,191 26.7 25.0-28.4 2,605 73.3 71.6-75.0
History of CVD**
Yes 590 350 59.8 54.5-65.0 240 40.2 35.0-45.5
No 4,092 1,137 23.9 22.3-25.5 2,955 76.1 74.5-77.7
Binge Drinker
Yes 566 111 18.9 15.2-23.2 455 81.1 76.8-84.8
No 3,781 1,312 30.1 28.3-32.0 2,469 69.9 68.0-71.7
Heavy Drinker
Yes 255 65 22.7 17.1-29.3 190 77.3 70.7-82.9
No 4,076 1,353 28.8 27.1-30.5 2,723 71.2 69.5-72.9
COPD
Yes 420 271 62.8 56.3-68.8 149 37.2 31.2-43.7
No 4,269 1,218 24.3 22.8-25.9 3,051 75.7 74.1-77.2
Current Asthma
Yes 427 218 44.7 38.5-51.0 209 55.3 49.0-61.5
No 4,259 1,274 25.8 24.2-27.4 2,985 74.2 72.6-75.8
Diabetes
Yes 677 372 53.3 48.2-58.3 305 46.7 41.7-51.8
No 4,029 1,129 23.9 22.4-25.6 2,900 76.1 74.4-77.6
Functional Disability
Yes 1,447 800 52.4 49.0-55.8 647 47.6 44.2-51.0
No 3,123 680 18.5 16.9-20.2 2,443 81.5 79.8-83.1
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,544 1,099 70.8 67.8-73.7 445 29.2 26.3-32.2
No 3,162 402 11.1 9.8-12.5 2,760 88.9 87.5-90.2

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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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