2021 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

Not including kidney stones, bladder infection or incontinence, were you (Ever told) you have kidney disease?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,925 188 3.5 2.9- 4.3 4,737 96.5 95.7-97.1
GENDER
Male 2,294 92 4.0 3.0- 5.4 2,202 96.0 94.6-97.0
Female 2,631 96 3.0 2.3- 3.9 2,535 97.0 96.1-97.7
Have Health Insurance
Yes 4,329 171 3.6 2.9- 4.4 4,158 96.4 95.6-97.1
No 483 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 56 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,288 28 1.6 1.0- 2.5 1,260 98.4 97.5-99.0
Overweight 1,541 56 3.3 2.3- 4.7 1,485 96.7 95.3-97.7
Obese 1,586 91 5.7 4.3- 7.6 1,495 94.3 92.4-95.7
Current Smoker
Yes 652 25 3.3 2.0- 5.3 627 96.7 94.7-98.0
No 4,164 163 3.6 2.9- 4.5 4,001 96.4 95.5-97.1
History of CVD**
Yes 528 73 14.8 10.7-20.0 455 85.2 80.0-89.3
No 4,347 111 2.2 1.8- 2.9 4,236 97.8 97.1-98.2
Binge Drinker
Yes 670 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,941 170 4.0 3.2- 4.9 3,771 96.0 95.1-96.8
Heavy Drinker
Yes 254 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 4,349 176 3.8 3.1- 4.7 4,173 96.2 95.3-96.9
COPD
Yes 369 46 10.7 6.6-16.9 323 89.3 83.1-93.4
No 4,538 141 2.9 2.3- 3.6 4,397 97.1 96.4-97.7
Current Asthma
Yes 429 37 4.8 3.1- 7.3 392 95.2 92.7-96.9
No 4,481 150 3.4 2.7- 4.2 4,331 96.6 95.8-97.3
Diabetes
Yes 676 102 16.2 12.6-20.6 574 83.8 79.4-87.4
No 4,246 86 1.7 1.3- 2.2 4,160 98.3 97.8-98.7
Functional Disability
Yes 1,512 129 8.3 6.6-10.5 1,383 91.7 89.5-93.4
No 3,308 58 1.5 1.1- 2.1 3,250 98.5 97.9-98.9
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,506 169 11.0 8.9-13.4 1,337 89.0 86.6-91.1
No 3,419 19 0.7 0.4- 1.2 3,400 99.3 98.8-99.6

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**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 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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