2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

For these next questions, please think about injuries you have had during your entire lifetime, especially those that affected your head or neck.
It might help to remember times you went to the hospital or emergency room.
Think about injuries you may have received from a car or motorcycle wreck, bicycle crash, being hit by something, falling down, being hit by someone, playing sports or an injury during military service.
Thinking about any injuries you have had in your lifetime, were you ever knocked out or did you lose consciousness?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 3,569 911 24.8 23.1-26.6 2,658 75.2 73.4-76.9
GENDER
Male 1,609 527 31.1 28.4-34.0 1,082 68.9 66.0-71.6
Female 1,960 384 19.4 17.3-21.6 1,576 80.6 78.4-82.7
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,089 783 24.8 22.9-26.8 2,306 75.2 73.2-77.1
No 475 126 24.8 20.4-29.7 349 75.2 70.3-79.6
Body Mass Index
Underweight 60 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 924 246 24.8 21.6-28.3 678 75.2 71.7-78.4
Overweight 1,194 304 25.2 22.2-28.5 890 74.8 71.5-77.8
Obese 1,147 308 26.7 23.6-30.0 839 73.3 70.0-76.4
Current Smoker
Yes 599 219 33.6 29.0-38.5 380 66.4 61.5-71.0
No 2,939 682 22.8 21.0-24.8 2,257 77.2 75.2-79.0
History of CVD**
Yes 486 163 34.3 28.6-40.3 323 65.7 59.7-71.4
No 3,063 740 23.5 21.7-25.4 2,323 76.5 74.6-78.3
Binge Drinker
Yes 403 127 28.1 23.2-33.7 276 71.9 66.3-76.8
No 3,003 736 24.1 22.2-26.1 2,267 75.9 73.9-77.8
Heavy Drinker
Yes 190 67 31.0 23.6-39.5 123 69.0 60.5-76.4
No 3,210 801 24.6 22.7-26.5 2,409 75.4 73.5-77.3
COPD
Yes 349 135 38.8 32.2-45.8 214 61.2 54.2-67.8
No 3,212 773 23.4 21.6-25.3 2,439 76.6 74.7-78.4
Current Asthma
Yes 332 118 30.8 25.0-37.1 214 69.2 62.9-75.0
No 3,222 784 24.0 22.2-25.9 2,438 76.0 74.1-77.8
Diabetes
Yes 570 144 26.1 21.4-31.3 426 73.9 68.7-78.6
No 3,000 767 24.6 22.8-26.6 2,233 75.4 73.4-77.2
Functional Disability
Yes 1,197 410 33.8 30.5-37.4 787 66.2 62.6-69.5
No 2,359 492 20.5 18.6-22.6 1,867 79.5 77.4-81.4
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,277 394 30.4 27.2-33.9 883 69.6 66.1-72.8
No 2,293 517 22.3 20.3-24.4 1,776 77.7 75.6-79.7

Back to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

**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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