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?

(Ever told) you have some form of arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus,
or fibromyalgia?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,255 1,311 27.0 25.5-28.5 2,944 73.0 71.5-74.5
GENDER
Male 1,988 508 22.4 20.4-24.6 1,480 77.6 75.4-79.6
Female 2,267 803 31.2 29.0-33.4 1,464 68.8 66.6-71.0
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,697 1,227 29.1 27.5-30.8 2,470 70.9 69.2-72.5
No 550 82 14.8 11.7-18.7 468 85.2 81.3-88.3
Body Mass Index
Underweight 65 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,078 270 21.8 19.0-24.8 808 78.2 75.2-81.0
Overweight 1,398 412 25.2 22.7-27.8 986 74.8 72.2-77.3
Obese 1,302 528 36.4 33.5-39.5 774 63.6 60.5-66.5
Current Smoker
Yes 675 220 29.6 25.8-33.8 455 70.4 66.2-74.2
No 3,428 1,052 26.5 24.8-28.2 2,376 73.5 71.8-75.2
History of CVD**
Yes 492 299 59.6 54.3-64.8 193 40.4 35.2-45.7
No 3,727 992 23.2 21.7-24.8 2,735 76.8 75.2-78.3
Binge Drinker
Yes 513 106 18.2 14.6-22.3 407 81.8 77.7-85.4
No 3,423 1,111 28.6 26.9-30.4 2,312 71.4 69.6-73.1
COPD
Yes 361 217 59.0 52.7-65.0 144 41.0 35.0-47.3
No 3,883 1,088 24.2 22.7-25.8 2,795 75.8 74.2-77.3
Current Asthma
Yes 364 191 49.3 43.4-55.2 173 50.7 44.8-56.6
No 3,876 1,114 24.9 23.4-26.5 2,762 75.1 73.5-76.6
Functional Disability
Yes 1,361 736 49.7 46.5-52.9 625 50.3 47.1-53.5
No 2,753 540 16.7 15.2-18.3 2,213 83.3 81.7-84.8
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,325 952 70.5 67.4-73.4 373 29.5 26.6-32.6
No 2,930 359 10.8 9.6-12.2 2,571 89.2 87.8-90.4

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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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