2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Pain

Are you doing anything to cope with your chronic pain?*
(Using) something else? (Please specify ____________)

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 958 150 16.4 13.5-19.8 808 83.6 80.2-86.5
GENDER
Male 354 50 15.8 11.6-21.2 304 84.2 78.8-88.4
Female 604 100 16.8 13.1-21.3 504 83.2 78.7-86.9
Have Health Insurance
Yes 866 132 16.0 13.0-19.6 734 84.0 80.4-87.0
No 91 18 20.6 12.1-32.9 73 79.4 67.1-87.9
Body Mass Index
Underweight 10 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 211 39 23.5 15.9-33.3 172 76.5 66.7-84.1
Overweight 287 41 15.5 10.9-21.7 246 84.5 78.3-89.1
Obese 400 60 14.1 10.5-18.6 340 85.9 81.4-89.5
Current Smoker
Yes 213 27 14.3 8.3-23.7 186 85.7 76.3-91.7
No 741 123 17.2 14.1-20.9 618 82.8 79.1-85.9
History of CVD**
Yes 206 24 12.9 7.9-20.4 182 87.1 79.6-92.1
No 744 123 17.1 13.8-21.1 621 82.9 78.9-86.2
Binge Drinker
Yes 78 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 838 138 17.2 14.1-21.0 700 82.8 79.0-85.9
Heavy Drinker
Yes 44 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 874 139 16.6 13.5-20.1 735 83.4 79.9-86.5
COPD
Yes 192 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 764 134 18.4 15.0-22.3 630 81.6 77.7-85.0
Current Asthma
Yes 162 22 12.4 7.4-20.1 140 87.6 79.9-92.6
No 789 126 17.0 13.8-20.9 663 83.0 79.1-86.2
Diabetes
Yes 239 35 16.8 11.4-24.0 204 83.2 76.0-88.6
No 719 115 16.3 13.0-20.3 604 83.7 79.7-87.0
Functional Disability
Yes 566 92 16.8 13.2-21.0 474 83.2 79.0-86.8
No 389 58 16.2 11.6-22.1 331 83.8 77.9-88.4
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 599 83 13.4 10.4-17.2 516 86.6 82.8-89.6
No 359 67 20.8 15.6-27.1 292 79.2 72.9-84.4

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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