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?

(Ever told) you that you had a heart attack also called a myocardial infarction?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,912 244 4.6 3.9- 5.4 4,668 95.4 94.6-96.1
GENDER
Male 2,287 149 6.2 5.0- 7.6 2,138 93.8 92.4-95.0
Female 2,625 95 3.2 2.5- 4.0 2,530 96.8 96.0-97.5
Have Health Insurance
Yes 4,318 232 5.0 4.2- 5.9 4,086 95.0 94.1-95.8
No 481 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 56 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,283 61 4.4 3.2- 6.0 1,222 95.6 94.0-96.8
Overweight 1,531 82 4.6 3.6- 6.0 1,449 95.4 94.0-96.4
Obese 1,587 90 5.8 4.4- 7.7 1,497 94.2 92.3-95.6
Current Smoker
Yes 650 58 8.7 6.4-11.7 592 91.3 88.3-93.6
No 4,153 183 4.0 3.3- 4.8 3,970 96.0 95.2-96.7
History of CVD**
Yes 528 244 47.5 41.9-53.1 284 52.5 46.9-58.1
No 4,353 *** *** *** 4,353 100 . - .
Binge Drinker
Yes 668 18 2.6 1.5- 4.5 650 97.4 95.5-98.5
No 3,928 212 5.0 4.2- 6.0 3,716 95.0 94.0-95.8
Heavy Drinker
Yes 253 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 4,335 223 4.9 4.1- 5.8 4,112 95.1 94.2-95.9
COPD
Yes 367 58 15.5 10.5-22.1 309 84.5 77.9-89.5
No 4,525 182 3.7 3.1- 4.4 4,343 96.3 95.6-96.9
Current Asthma
Yes 428 37 8.7 5.8-12.8 391 91.3 87.2-94.2
No 4,468 205 4.2 3.5- 5.0 4,263 95.8 95.0-96.5
Diabetes
Yes 678 93 14.6 11.2-18.8 585 85.4 81.2-88.8
No 4,230 151 3.2 2.6- 3.9 4,079 96.8 96.1-97.4
Functional Disability
Yes 1,503 157 10.2 8.3-12.4 1,346 89.8 87.6-91.7
No 3,302 85 2.3 1.8- 3.0 3,217 97.7 97.0-98.2
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,500 226 15.5 13.2-18.2 1,274 84.5 81.8-86.8
No 3,412 18 0.5 0.3- 0.8 3,394 99.5 99.2-99.7

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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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