2019 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Pain

Are you doing anything to cope with your chronic pain?*
(Using) A prescription anti-inflammatory like Celebrex.

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 857 188 19.6 16.7-22.8 669 80.4 77.2-83.3
GENDER
Male 338 61 16.7 12.5-22.0 277 83.3 78.0-87.5
Female 519 127 21.7 17.9-25.9 392 78.3 74.1-82.1
Have Health Insurance
Yes 776 173 20.2 17.1-23.6 603 79.8 76.4-82.9
No 81 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 13 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 181 34 19.1 12.7-27.6 147 80.9 72.4-87.3
Overweight 262 56 18.6 13.8-24.6 206 81.4 75.4-86.2
Obese 360 90 21.7 17.4-26.6 270 78.3 73.4-82.6
Current Smoker
Yes 184 35 17.9 12.1-25.6 149 82.1 74.4-87.9
No 665 150 20.0 16.8-23.7 515 80.0 76.3-83.2
History of CVD**
Yes 152 33 20.6 14.2-28.8 119 79.4 71.2-85.8
No 691 152 19.2 16.0-22.7 539 80.8 77.3-84.0
Binge Drinker
Yes 86 20 18.6 11.6-28.6 66 81.4 71.4-88.4
No 740 160 19.5 16.5-23.0 580 80.5 77.0-83.5
COPD
Yes 135 34 27.7 19.7-37.5 101 72.3 62.5-80.3
No 717 154 18.2 15.3-21.7 563 81.8 78.3-84.7
Current Asthma
Yes 134 37 28.2 20.3-37.7 97 71.8 62.3-79.7
No 721 151 18.1 15.1-21.5 570 81.9 78.5-84.9
Functional Disability
Yes 520 128 21.4 17.7-25.7 392 78.6 74.3-82.3
No 331 59 16.9 12.7-22.2 272 83.1 77.8-87.3
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 505 133 25.8 21.6-30.6 372 74.2 69.4-78.4
No 352 55 11.9 8.6-16.2 297 88.1 83.8-91.4

Back to Chronic Pain.

*Asked of respondents that stated they were doing something to cope with their Chronic Pain.

**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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