2022 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 4,487 177 3.4 2.9- 4.1 4,310 96.6 95.9-97.1
GENDER
Male 2,116 74 2.6 2.0- 3.4 2,042 97.4 96.6-98.0
Female 2,371 103 4.2 3.3- 5.3 2,268 95.8 94.7-96.7
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,988 160 3.5 2.9- 4.3 3,828 96.5 95.7-97.1
No 416 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 65 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,160 41 3.1 2.1- 4.5 1,119 96.9 95.5-97.9
Overweight 1,453 57 3.7 2.7- 5.0 1,396 96.3 95.0-97.3
Obese 1,346 64 4.1 3.1- 5.5 1,282 95.9 94.5-96.9
Current Smoker
Yes 559 26 3.3 2.0- 5.3 533 96.7 94.7-98.0
No 3,718 145 3.5 2.9- 4.3 3,573 96.5 95.7-97.1
History of CVD**
Yes 477 57 12.3 8.9-16.6 420 87.7 83.4-91.1
No 3,973 116 2.3 1.9- 2.9 3,857 97.7 97.1-98.1
Binge Drinker
Yes 641 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,435 154 3.9 3.2- 4.7 3,281 96.1 95.3-96.8
Heavy Drinker
Yes 261 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,827 160 3.7 3.0- 4.4 3,667 96.3 95.6-97.0
COPD
Yes 352 46 11.7 8.0-16.6 306 88.3 83.4-92.0
No 4,124 130 2.7 2.2- 3.3 3,994 97.3 96.7-97.8
Current Asthma
Yes 400 26 5.8 3.7- 9.0 374 94.2 91.0-96.3
No 4,066 150 3.2 2.6- 3.9 3,916 96.8 96.1-97.4
Diabetes
Yes 589 67 10.6 7.9-14.1 522 89.4 85.9-92.1
No 3,889 109 2.4 1.9- 3.0 3,780 97.6 97.0-98.1
Functional Disability
Yes 1,386 110 6.9 5.4- 8.6 1,276 93.1 91.4-94.6
No 2,950 65 1.9 1.4- 2.5 2,885 98.1 97.5-98.6
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,329 155 11.0 9.1-13.2 1,174 89.0 86.8-90.9
No 3,158 22 0.5 0.3- 0.8 3,136 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 2022 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2022 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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