2019 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

Not including kidney stones, bladder infection or incontinence, were you (Ever told) you have kidney disease?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,276 169 3.9 3.2- 4.6 4,107 96.1 95.4-96.8
GENDER
Male 1,999 84 4.1 3.2- 5.2 1,915 95.9 94.8-96.8
Female 2,277 85 3.6 2.8- 4.6 2,192 96.4 95.4-97.2
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,716 156 4.1 3.4- 4.9 3,560 95.9 95.1-96.6
No 552 13 2.6 1.5- 4.6 539 97.4 95.4-98.5
Body Mass Index
Underweight 65 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,083 29 2.5 1.7- 3.8 1,054 97.5 96.2-98.3
Overweight 1,405 61 4.2 3.2- 5.7 1,344 95.8 94.3-96.8
Obese 1,307 66 5.1 3.9- 6.7 1,241 94.9 93.3-96.1
Current Smoker
Yes 677 30 3.7 2.5- 5.5 647 96.3 94.5-97.5
No 3,443 133 3.9 3.2- 4.7 3,310 96.1 95.3-96.8
History of CVD**
Yes 489 56 14.2 10.6-18.6 433 85.8 81.4-89.4
No 3,750 110 2.7 2.2- 3.3 3,640 97.3 96.7-97.8
Binge Drinker
Yes 512 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,442 145 4.2 3.5- 5.1 3,297 95.8 94.9-96.5
COPD
Yes 360 40 10.5 7.5-14.6 320 89.5 85.4-92.5
No 3,903 127 3.2 2.6- 3.9 3,776 96.8 96.1-97.4
Current Asthma
Yes 369 22 5.9 3.7- 9.2 347 94.1 90.8-96.3
No 3,890 145 3.6 3.0- 4.4 3,745 96.4 95.6-97.0
Functional Disability
Yes 1,370 108 7.6 6.2- 9.5 1,262 92.4 90.5-93.8
No 2,762 55 2.1 1.5- 2.8 2,707 97.9 97.2-98.5
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,329 113 9.2 7.5-11.3 1,216 90.8 88.7-92.5
No 2,947 56 1.9 1.4- 2.5 2,891 98.1 97.5-98.6

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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 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 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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