2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Pain

Are you doing anything to cope with your chronic pain?*
(Using) Alcohol?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 957 40 4.2 2.8- 6.4 917 95.8 93.6-97.2
GENDER
Male 353 21 5.3 3.1- 9.0 332 94.7 91.0-96.9
Female 604 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Have Health Insurance
Yes 864 29 2.9 1.8- 4.5 835 97.1 95.5-98.2
No 92 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 10 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 212 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Overweight 287 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Obese 397 19 5.3 2.9- 9.4 378 94.7 90.6-97.1
Current Smoker
Yes 214 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 739 22 3.1 1.8- 5.3 717 96.9 94.7-98.2
History of CVD**
Yes 207 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 742 34 4.6 2.9- 7.2 708 95.4 92.8-97.1
Binge Drinker
Yes 78 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 838 22 2.5 1.4- 4.4 816 97.5 95.6-98.6
Heavy Drinker
Yes 44 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 873 22 2.7 1.5- 4.7 851 97.3 95.3-98.5
COPD
Yes 192 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 763 29 3.5 2.1- 5.6 734 96.5 94.4-97.9
Current Asthma
Yes 162 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 788 30 4.3 2.7- 6.8 758 95.7 93.2-97.3
Diabetes
Yes 238 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 719 35 5.0 3.2- 7.7 684 95.0 92.3-96.8
Functional Disability
Yes 565 25 5.0 3.0- 8.2 540 95.0 91.8-97.0
No 389 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 599 21 3.5 2.0- 6.1 578 96.5 93.9-98.0
No 358 19 5.4 3.0- 9.5 339 94.6 90.5-97.0

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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