2021 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?

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  Total
Respond.^
None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,845 3,386 70.8 69.1-72.4 380 7.6 6.7- 8.6 416 8.1 7.2- 9.1 356 7.5 6.6- 8.6 307 6.0 5.2- 7.0
GENDER
Male 2,275 1,633 72.6 70.2-74.8 173 7.4 6.2- 8.8 175 7.0 5.9- 8.3 149 7.1 5.8- 8.6 145 6.0 4.8- 7.4
Female 2,570 1,753 69.1 66.7-71.3 207 7.8 6.6- 9.2 241 9.1 7.7-10.6 207 8.0 6.8- 9.4 162 6.1 4.9- 7.5
Have Health Insurance
Yes 4,258 2,958 70.8 69.0-72.5 344 7.7 6.8- 8.8 370 8.0 7.1- 9.0 320 7.6 6.6- 8.7 266 5.9 5.0- 6.9
No 475 354 73.4 68.1-78.1 26 5.4 3.4- 8.7 34 7.2 4.7-10.7 30 7.9 5.1-12.0 31 6.1 4.1- 9.0
Body Mass Index
Underweight 55 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,274 924 74.2 71.0-77.2 103 7.0 5.5- 8.7 109 7.4 6.0- 9.3 73 6.5 4.9- 8.7 65 4.8 3.3- 7.0
Overweight 1,514 1,101 74.7 72.0-77.3 105 6.8 5.4- 8.6 114 7.0 5.6- 8.7 113 7.1 5.7- 8.8 81 4.3 3.3- 5.6
Obese 1,564 992 63.6 60.5-66.6 128 7.9 6.4- 9.8 158 9.6 7.9-11.6 152 10.1 8.3-12.2 134 8.8 7.1-10.9
Current Smoker
Yes 638 395 63.5 58.7-68.0 36 5.5 3.6- 8.3 60 8.4 6.3-11.1 72 13.3 10.1-17.3 75 9.4 7.1-12.3
No 4,097 2,904 71.8 70.0-73.5 336 7.9 7.0- 9.0 353 8.2 7.2- 9.3 275 6.5 5.6- 7.5 229 5.6 4.7- 6.6
History of CVD**
Yes 511 254 47.6 42.1-53.2 26 5.8 3.4- 9.8 54 9.0 6.5-12.4 86 17.9 14.0-22.5 91 19.7 15.1-25.3
No 4,282 3,106 73.5 71.8-75.2 352 7.8 6.9- 8.9 358 8.0 7.0- 9.1 261 6.3 5.4- 7.3 205 4.4 3.6- 5.2
Binge Drinker
Yes 662 469 71.8 67.6-75.7 63 8.3 6.3-10.9 57 8.0 6.0-10.6 43 7.5 5.2-10.7 30 4.3 2.9- 6.4
No 3,873 2,693 70.4 68.5-72.2 298 7.5 6.5- 8.6 340 8.3 7.3- 9.4 287 7.4 6.5- 8.6 255 6.4 5.5- 7.5
Heavy Drinker
Yes 253 173 68.6 61.7-74.8 23 9.0 5.7-13.8 24 9.1 5.8-14.0 19 8.2 4.9-13.2 14 5.3 3.0- 9.2
No 4,275 2,980 70.6 68.8-72.3 338 7.5 6.6- 8.6 372 8.2 7.2- 9.3 313 7.6 6.6- 8.7 272 6.1 5.3- 7.2
COPD
Yes 353 139 40.4 33.6-47.5 *** *** *** 47 12.9 9.2-17.9 68 16.4 12.3-21.6 83 26.5 20.1-34.1
No 4,473 3,239 73.3 71.6-74.9 363 7.9 7.0- 8.9 367 7.7 6.8- 8.7 285 6.8 5.9- 7.8 219 4.3 3.7- 5.1
Current Asthma
Yes 412 203 51.7 45.4-57.9 31 7.7 4.9-12.1 52 11.7 8.5-15.8 72 17.1 13.0-22.2 54 11.8 8.4-16.3
No 4,416 3,176 72.7 71.0-74.3 346 7.5 6.6- 8.6 361 7.7 6.8- 8.7 282 6.7 5.8- 7.7 251 5.5 4.7- 6.4
Diabetes
Yes 658 362 54.7 49.7-59.6 45 8.2 5.6-11.8 67 8.8 6.5-11.7 86 12.8 9.9-16.3 98 15.6 12.0-19.9
No 4,181 3,019 73.1 71.3-74.7 335 7.5 6.6- 8.5 348 7.9 7.0- 9.0 270 6.8 5.9- 7.9 209 4.7 3.9- 5.6
Functional Disability
Yes 1,462 714 48.6 45.3-51.9 109 7.7 6.1- 9.8 171 11.0 9.1-13.3 217 15.5 13.2-18.0 251 17.2 14.8-20.0
No 3,278 2,595 80.1 78.4-81.8 264 7.5 6.5- 8.7 236 6.8 5.8- 7.9 132 4.2 3.4- 5.2 51 1.4 1.0- 2.0
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,461 734 50.0 46.7-53.2 110 7.2 5.7- 9.2 176 11.6 9.7-13.7 211 14.9 12.8-17.4 230 16.3 13.9-19.0
No 3,382 2,650 78.5 76.6-80.2 270 7.7 6.7- 8.9 240 6.8 5.8- 7.9 145 4.8 3.9- 5.9 77 2.2 1.6- 3.1

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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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