2021 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of health care coverage, including health insurance, prepaid plans such as HMOs,
or government plans such as Medicare, or Indian Health Service?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,822 4,338 89.7 88.6-90.7 484 10.3 9.3-11.4
GENDER
Male 2,238 1,978 88.0 86.2-89.7 260 12.0 10.3-13.8
Female 2,584 2,360 91.2 89.8-92.4 224 8.8 7.6-10.2
Have Health Insurance
Yes 4,338 4,338 100 . - . *** *** ***
No 484 *** *** *** 484 100 . - .
Body Mass Index
Underweight 56 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,252 1,138 89.9 87.5-91.8 114 10.1 8.2-12.5
Overweight 1,520 1,374 89.8 87.6-91.6 146 10.2 8.4-12.4
Obese 1,567 1,443 92.0 90.2-93.5 124 8.0 6.5- 9.8
Current Smoker
Yes 642 533 81.6 77.5-85.2 109 18.4 14.8-22.5
No 4,081 3,716 91.1 90.0-92.1 365 8.9 7.9-10.0
History of CVD**
Yes 524 505 95.7 92.9-97.5 19 4.3 2.5- 7.1
No 4,250 3,788 88.9 87.7-90.1 462 11.1 9.9-12.3
Binge Drinker
Yes 653 570 88.3 85.3-90.8 83 11.7 9.2-14.7
No 3,869 3,525 90.9 89.7-91.9 344 9.1 8.1-10.3
Heavy Drinker
Yes 250 230 92.6 88.2-95.5 20 7.4 4.5-11.8
No 4,266 3,861 90.2 89.1-91.3 405 9.8 8.7-10.9
COPD
Yes 367 349 93.2 88.6-96.1 18 6.8 3.9-11.4
No 4,436 3,970 89.3 88.2-90.4 466 10.7 9.6-11.8
Current Asthma
Yes 421 396 94.1 91.1-96.2 25 5.9 3.8- 8.9
No 4,385 3,929 89.3 88.1-90.4 456 10.7 9.6-11.9
Diabetes
Yes 669 633 95.1 92.9-96.6 36 4.9 3.4- 7.1
No 4,151 3,703 88.9 87.6-90.0 448 11.1 10.0-12.4
Functional Disability
Yes 1,479 1,350 91.1 89.2-92.7 129 8.9 7.3-10.8
No 3,248 2,904 89.2 87.8-90.4 344 10.8 9.6-12.2
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,494 1,422 95.1 93.7-96.2 72 4.9 3.8- 6.3
No 3,328 2,916 87.6 86.1-88.9 412 12.4 11.1-13.9

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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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