2019 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Pain

Are you doing anything to cope with your chronic pain?*
(Using) Some other prescription drug?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 861 270 31.4 27.8-35.3 591 68.6 64.7-72.2
GENDER
Male 341 82 22.0 17.5-27.4 259 78.0 72.6-82.5
Female 520 188 38.2 33.2-43.4 332 61.8 56.6-66.8
Have Health Insurance
Yes 779 255 33.1 29.2-37.1 524 66.9 62.9-70.8
No 82 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 13 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 181 53 30.4 22.6-39.4 128 69.6 60.6-77.4
Overweight 264 75 24.5 19.0-31.0 189 75.5 69.0-81.0
Obese 362 127 36.8 31.2-42.9 235 63.2 57.1-68.8
Current Smoker
Yes 184 59 36.6 28.4-45.7 125 63.4 54.3-71.6
No 669 209 30.0 26.1-34.3 460 70.0 65.7-73.9
History of CVD**
Yes 154 51 33.5 25.2-43.0 103 66.5 57.0-74.8
No 693 213 30.8 26.8-35.2 480 69.2 64.8-73.2
Binge Drinker
Yes 86 21 25.0 16.0-36.8 *** *** ***
No 744 239 32.5 28.6-36.7 505 67.5 63.3-71.4
COPD
Yes 135 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 721 212 28.5 24.8-32.6 509 71.5 67.4-75.2
Current Asthma
Yes 135 64 49.8 40.4-59.3 71 50.2 40.7-59.6
No 724 205 28.1 24.3-32.3 519 71.9 67.7-75.7
Functional Disability
Yes 523 193 36.6 31.8-41.7 330 63.4 58.3-68.2
No 332 74 23.6 18.3-29.7 258 76.4 70.3-81.7
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 509 194 40.0 34.9-45.4 315 60.0 54.6-65.1
No 352 76 20.8 16.3-26.2 276 79.2 73.8-83.7

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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