2019 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Pain

Are you doing anything to cope with your chronic pain?*
(Using) something else? (Please specify ____________)

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 860 176 19.8 16.9-23.1 684 80.2 76.9-83.1
GENDER
Male 343 60 18.0 13.7-23.3 283 82.0 76.7-86.3
Female 517 116 21.1 17.3-25.4 401 78.9 74.6-82.7
Have Health Insurance
Yes 778 164 20.1 17.1-23.5 614 79.9 76.5-82.9
No 82 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 13 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 182 35 14.4 10.0-20.3 147 85.6 79.7-90.0
Overweight 264 56 21.8 16.4-28.4 208 78.2 71.6-83.6
Obese 362 73 21.0 16.4-26.4 289 79.0 73.6-83.6
Current Smoker
Yes 185 27 13.3 8.8-19.4 158 86.7 80.6-91.2
No 668 146 21.5 18.0-25.4 522 78.5 74.6-82.0
History of CVD**
Yes 153 35 24.9 17.4-34.2 118 75.1 65.8-82.6
No 693 135 18.3 15.2-21.9 558 81.7 78.1-84.8
Binge Drinker
Yes 87 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 743 158 21.0 17.8-24.6 585 79.0 75.4-82.2
COPD
Yes 134 28 20.1 13.6-28.7 106 79.9 71.3-86.4
No 721 146 19.4 16.2-22.9 575 80.6 77.1-83.8
Current Asthma
Yes 135 33 24.3 17.2-33.1 102 75.7 66.9-82.8
No 723 143 19.0 15.8-22.6 580 81.0 77.4-84.2
Functional Disability
Yes 522 110 21.6 17.6-26.1 412 78.4 73.9-82.4
No 332 65 17.1 13.2-21.9 267 82.9 78.1-86.8
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 508 113 21.1 17.3-25.5 395 78.9 74.5-82.7
No 352 63 18.1 13.8-23.4 289 81.9 76.6-86.2

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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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