2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?

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  Total
Respond.^
None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,623 3,079 68.0 66.3-69.7 374 9.0 7.9-10.1 429 8.7 7.8- 9.7 342 6.9 6.0- 7.8 399 7.5 6.6- 8.5
GENDER
Male 2,158 1,512 72.0 69.6-74.3 163 8.1 6.8- 9.7 164 7.2 6.0- 8.7 130 5.6 4.6- 6.8 189 7.1 5.8- 8.5
Female 2,465 1,567 64.2 61.8-66.6 211 9.8 8.3-11.5 265 10.1 8.7-11.6 212 8.1 6.8- 9.5 210 7.8 6.6- 9.4
Have Health Insurance
Yes 4,006 2,659 67.4 65.6-69.3 332 9.5 8.4-10.8 370 8.7 7.7- 9.8 288 6.5 5.6- 7.5 357 7.9 6.8- 9.0
No 615 418 70.8 66.3-74.9 41 5.5 3.8- 7.8 61 9.4 7.0-12.7 53 9.0 6.6-12.1 42 5.3 3.6- 7.7
Body Mass Index
Underweight 79 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,241 864 70.3 67.1-73.4 107 9.8 7.8-12.3 103 7.9 6.3-10.0 79 6.5 5.0- 8.4 88 5.4 4.2- 7.0
Overweight 1,513 1,041 68.9 65.8-71.7 120 8.6 7.0-10.4 143 9.2 7.6-11.1 103 6.4 5.0- 8.1 106 7.0 5.3- 9.2
Obese 1,380 826 62.6 59.3-65.8 113 8.7 6.9-11.0 148 10.2 8.4-12.3 134 8.2 6.7-10.0 159 10.2 8.4-12.5
Current Smoker
Yes 741 422 59.8 55.2-64.3 52 7.6 5.3-10.8 74 8.6 6.5-11.3 83 10.9 8.5-13.9 110 13.0 10.1-16.5
No 3,727 2,543 69.4 67.6-71.3 309 9.0 7.9-10.3 344 8.9 7.8-10.0 255 6.2 5.3- 7.2 276 6.5 5.5- 7.6
History of CVD**
Yes 569 263 44.6 39.3-50.0 34 5.9 3.7- 9.3 52 9.3 6.6-13.0 79 13.2 10.2-16.8 141 27.0 21.9-32.7
No 4,037 2,809 70.6 68.8-72.4 338 9.3 8.2-10.5 377 8.7 7.7- 9.8 261 6.2 5.3- 7.2 252 5.2 4.5- 6.1
Binge Drinker
Yes 561 384 69.3 64.4-73.8 59 11.4 8.5-15.1 58 9.3 6.8-12.7 32 6.3 4.2- 9.2 28 3.7 2.2- 6.2
No 3,714 2,445 67.3 65.3-69.2 290 8.4 7.3- 9.7 344 8.8 7.8-10.0 300 7.3 6.4- 8.4 335 8.1 7.0- 9.3
Heavy Drinker
Yes 252 165 65.6 58.0-72.4 26 11.7 7.6-17.6 28 10.0 6.2-15.6 15 5.6 3.3- 9.6 *** *** ***
No 4,007 2,649 67.6 65.8-69.5 326 8.8 7.7-10.0 373 8.8 7.8- 9.9 314 7.3 6.4- 8.4 345 7.5 6.5- 8.6
COPD
Yes 407 149 38.5 32.3-45.2 17 5.4 3.1- 9.4 51 12.5 8.9-17.3 66 15.7 11.8-20.6 124 27.9 22.3-34.3
No 4,204 2,928 70.6 68.9-72.3 356 9.2 8.1-10.5 375 8.4 7.4- 9.5 273 6.0 5.2- 7.0 272 5.7 4.9- 6.7
Current Asthma
Yes 418 183 47.5 41.2-54.0 28 9.3 5.8-14.7 54 10.4 7.5-14.2 67 15.2 11.3-20.2 86 17.5 13.1-23.0
No 4,190 2,884 70.0 68.2-71.7 345 9.0 7.9-10.1 376 8.6 7.6- 9.7 274 6.0 5.2- 6.9 311 6.4 5.5- 7.4
Diabetes
Yes 655 320 49.0 43.8-54.1 32 5.8 3.6- 9.2 74 11.6 8.8-15.3 81 10.5 8.0-13.5 148 23.1 18.8-28.1
No 3,974 2,763 70.6 68.8-72.4 342 9.4 8.3-10.7 357 8.3 7.4- 9.4 261 6.4 5.5- 7.4 251 5.3 4.5- 6.2
Functional Disability
Yes 1,394 619 46.1 42.7-49.6 90 7.2 5.5- 9.2 162 11.3 9.4-13.5 211 14.6 12.5-17.1 312 20.8 18.1-23.8
No 3,101 2,366 76.3 74.3-78.1 273 9.4 8.2-10.8 256 7.7 6.7- 8.9 129 4.1 3.3- 5.1 77 2.5 1.8- 3.3
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,496 708 46.5 43.2-49.8 100 8.5 6.6-10.9 187 11.8 9.9-14.0 204 13.9 11.8-16.2 297 19.3 16.7-22.2
No 3,133 2,375 76.0 74.1-77.8 274 9.1 7.9-10.5 244 7.6 6.6- 8.8 138 4.2 3.5- 5.2 102 3.0 2.3- 3.9

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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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