2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Pain

Are you doing anything to cope with your chronic pain?*
(Using) Some other prescription drug?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 952 344 37.0 33.0-41.2 608 63.0 58.8-67.0
GENDER
Male 351 111 32.7 26.6-39.5 240 67.3 60.5-73.4
Female 601 233 39.4 34.3-44.8 368 60.6 55.2-65.7
Have Health Insurance
Yes 859 322 38.6 34.3-43.0 537 61.4 57.0-65.7
No 92 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 10 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 211 75 36.9 28.4-46.3 136 63.1 53.7-71.6
Overweight 283 103 36.0 29.1-43.5 180 64.0 56.5-70.9
Obese 398 150 38.9 32.9-45.4 248 61.1 54.6-67.1
Current Smoker
Yes 212 76 35.3 27.6-43.9 136 64.7 56.1-72.4
No 736 266 37.1 32.6-41.9 470 62.9 58.1-67.4
History of CVD**
Yes 205 76 41.8 32.7-51.4 129 58.2 48.6-67.3
No 739 263 35.5 31.2-40.2 476 64.5 59.8-68.8
Binge Drinker
Yes 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 832 313 38.8 34.5-43.3 519 61.2 56.7-65.5
Heavy Drinker
Yes 45 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 868 320 37.7 33.5-42.1 548 62.3 57.9-66.5
COPD
Yes 190 81 42.0 33.1-51.6 109 58.0 48.4-66.9
No 760 262 35.7 31.3-40.4 498 64.3 59.6-68.7
Current Asthma
Yes 162 58 37.4 28.4-47.5 104 62.6 52.5-71.6
No 783 283 36.8 32.4-41.4 500 63.2 58.6-67.6
Diabetes
Yes 235 103 46.8 38.4-55.4 132 53.2 44.6-61.6
No 717 241 34.0 29.6-38.7 476 66.0 61.3-70.4
Functional Disability
Yes 560 225 40.9 35.6-46.4 335 59.1 53.6-64.4
No 389 118 31.7 25.9-38.2 271 68.3 61.8-74.1
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 593 234 41.6 36.5-47.0 359 58.4 53.0-63.5
No 359 110 30.3 24.4-37.0 249 69.7 63.0-75.6

Back to Chronic Pain.

*Asked of respondents that stated they were doing something to cope with their Chronic Pain.

**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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