2019 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Pain

Are you doing anything to cope with your chronic pain?*
(Using) A prescription narcotic pain reliever like Percocet or Vicodin?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 858 174 19.6 16.7-22.9 684 80.4 77.1-83.3
GENDER
Male 340 66 18.8 14.5-24.1 274 81.2 75.9-85.5
Female 518 108 20.2 16.5-24.5 410 79.8 75.5-83.5
Have Health Insurance
Yes 777 165 21.0 17.8-24.5 612 79.0 75.5-82.2
No 81 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 13 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 182 37 19.6 13.6-27.6 145 80.4 72.4-86.4
Overweight 263 44 17.2 12.4-23.4 219 82.8 76.6-87.6
Obese 360 84 22.1 17.7-27.2 276 77.9 72.8-82.3
Current Smoker
Yes 184 48 23.8 17.4-31.7 136 76.2 68.3-82.6
No 667 123 18.2 15.0-21.8 544 81.8 78.2-85.0
History of CVD**
Yes 152 44 30.3 22.2-39.9 108 69.7 60.1-77.8
No 692 128 17.7 14.7-21.2 564 82.3 78.8-85.3
Binge Drinker
Yes 86 14 15.4 8.6-25.8 72 84.6 74.2-91.4
No 742 154 19.9 16.8-23.4 588 80.1 76.6-83.2
COPD
Yes 135 43 31.9 23.4-41.8 92 68.1 58.2-76.6
No 718 131 17.6 14.6-21.0 587 82.4 79.0-85.4
Current Asthma
Yes 135 31 22.7 15.7-31.6 104 77.3 68.4-84.3
No 721 143 19.1 16.0-22.7 578 80.9 77.3-84.0
Functional Disability
Yes 520 132 24.8 20.7-29.4 388 75.2 70.6-79.3
No 332 41 12.2 8.6-17.0 291 87.8 83.0-91.4
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 506 128 25.9 21.7-30.7 378 74.1 69.3-78.3
No 352 46 11.9 8.5-16.4 306 88.1 83.6-91.5

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*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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