2019 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Workplace Support for Healthy Eating or Exercise

Does your workplace offer any support for healthy eating or physical activity for its employees?*
This may include offering healthy foods and drinks in vending machines, allowing for physical activity breaks during the day, or providing information on healthy eating or exercise.

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,358 737 53.7 50.6-56.8 621 46.3 43.2-49.4
GENDER
Male 654 328 49.6 45.3-54.0 326 50.4 46.0-54.7
Female 704 409 57.8 53.6-62.0 295 42.2 38.0-46.4
Have Health Insurance
Yes 1,161 686 58.4 55.1-61.6 475 41.6 38.4-44.9
No 195 51 28.5 21.5-36.6 144 71.5 63.4-78.5
Body Mass Index
Underweight 16 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 308 170 55.3 48.9-61.6 138 44.7 38.4-51.1
Overweight 485 261 53.6 48.4-58.7 224 46.4 41.3-51.6
Obese 447 248 54.0 48.6-59.3 199 46.0 40.7-51.4
Current Smoker
Yes 221 97 42.8 35.5-50.5 124 57.2 49.5-64.5
No 1,129 636 56.4 53.0-59.6 493 43.6 40.4-47.0
History of CVD**
Yes 59 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 1,294 709 54.2 51.0-57.3 585 45.8 42.7-49.0
Binge Drinker
Yes 203 115 58.6 50.5-66.2 88 41.4 33.8-49.5
No 1,092 598 53.5 50.1-56.9 494 46.5 43.1-49.9
COPD
Yes 57 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 1,300 706 53.8 50.6-56.9 594 46.2 43.1-49.4
Current Asthma
Yes 99 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 1,255 683 53.9 50.7-57.1 572 46.1 42.9-49.3
Functional Disability
Yes 252 114 45.9 38.9-53.1 138 54.1 46.9-61.1
No 1,100 620 55.5 52.1-58.8 480 44.5 41.2-47.9
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 251 140 56.0 48.7-63.1 111 44.0 36.9-51.3
No 1,107 597 53.2 49.8-56.6 510 46.8 43.4-50.2

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*Asked of respondents that are employed for wages.

**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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