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 have some form of arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus,
or fibromyalgia?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,913 1,520 27.3 25.8-28.9 3,393 72.7 71.1-74.2
GENDER
Male 2,292 585 23.4 21.3-25.5 1,707 76.6 74.5-78.7
Female 2,621 935 31.0 28.8-33.2 1,686 69.0 66.8-71.2
Have Health Insurance
Yes 4,320 1,438 29.6 27.9-31.3 2,882 70.4 68.7-72.1
No 480 59 10.5 7.9-13.8 421 89.5 86.2-92.1
Body Mass Index
Underweight 56 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,287 307 19.2 16.7-21.9 980 80.8 78.1-83.3
Overweight 1,537 438 24.7 22.2-27.3 1,099 75.3 72.7-77.8
Obese 1,580 647 37.3 34.4-40.4 933 62.7 59.6-65.6
Current Smoker
Yes 650 228 31.2 26.9-35.8 422 68.8 64.2-73.1
No 4,154 1,265 26.7 25.1-28.4 2,889 73.3 71.6-74.9
History of CVD**
Yes 530 301 57.2 51.7-62.5 229 42.8 37.5-48.3
No 4,333 1,192 23.8 22.3-25.4 3,141 76.2 74.6-77.7
Binge Drinker
Yes 668 118 15.5 12.7-18.8 550 84.5 81.2-87.3
No 3,931 1,319 29.9 28.2-31.7 2,612 70.1 68.3-71.8
Heavy Drinker
Yes 254 63 22.1 17.0-28.1 191 77.9 71.9-83.0
No 4,337 1,376 28.0 26.4-29.7 2,961 72.0 70.3-73.6
COPD
Yes 370 240 62.2 54.8-69.0 130 37.8 31.0-45.2
No 4,524 1,270 24.3 22.9-25.9 3,254 75.7 74.1-77.1
Current Asthma
Yes 426 205 42.3 36.5-48.4 221 57.7 51.6-63.5
No 4,471 1,308 25.9 24.3-27.5 3,163 74.1 72.5-75.7
Diabetes
Yes 676 356 51.9 47.1-56.6 320 48.1 43.4-52.9
No 4,234 1,163 23.8 22.2-25.3 3,071 76.2 74.7-77.8
Functional Disability
Yes 1,507 813 49.6 46.3-52.8 694 50.4 47.2-53.7
No 3,301 676 17.7 16.2-19.3 2,625 82.3 80.7-83.8
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,508 1,068 69.5 66.5-72.3 440 30.5 27.7-33.5
No 3,405 452 11.2 10.0-12.5 2,953 88.8 87.5-90.0

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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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