2022 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Oral Health

In the past year, have you had a dentist or dental hygienist check for oral cancer by pulling on your tongue with gauze wrapped around it,
feeling under the tongue and inside the cheeks, and checking the back of your throat?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 3,401 1,378 37.8 35.7-40.0 2,023 62.2 60.0-64.3
GENDER
Male 1,570 573 35.0 31.9-38.1 997 65.0 61.9-68.1
Female 1,831 805 40.5 37.6-43.5 1,026 59.5 56.5-62.4
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,040 1,348 41.4 39.2-43.7 1,692 58.6 56.3-60.8
No 313 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 45 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 865 363 36.9 32.9-41.2 502 63.1 58.8-67.1
Overweight 1,125 504 43.0 39.3-46.8 621 57.0 53.2-60.7
Obese 1,072 387 34.4 30.7-38.3 685 65.6 61.7-69.3
Current Smoker
Yes 445 112 25.3 20.2-31.2 333 74.7 68.8-79.8
No 2,927 1,260 40.1 37.8-42.4 1,667 59.9 57.6-62.2
History of CVD**
Yes 381 128 26.3 21.1-32.2 253 73.7 67.8-78.9
No 2,996 1,246 39.5 37.2-41.8 1,750 60.5 58.2-62.8
Binge Drinker
Yes 478 183 38.5 33.2-44.0 295 61.5 56.0-66.8
No 2,760 1,147 38.4 36.0-40.8 1,613 61.6 59.2-64.0
Heavy Drinker
Yes 195 84 43.6 35.1-52.6 111 56.4 47.4-64.9
No 3,053 1,249 38.0 35.8-40.3 1,804 62.0 59.7-64.2
COPD
Yes 286 80 24.6 18.6-31.9 206 75.4 68.1-81.4
No 3,109 1,297 39.0 36.8-41.3 1,812 61.0 58.7-63.2
Current Asthma
Yes 309 110 32.4 26.1-39.3 199 67.6 60.7-73.9
No 3,078 1,264 38.6 36.4-40.9 1,814 61.4 59.1-63.6
Diabetes
Yes 490 180 33.1 27.6-39.1 310 66.9 60.9-72.4
No 2,903 1,196 38.7 36.5-41.0 1,707 61.3 59.0-63.5
Functional Disability
Yes 1,115 377 31.6 28.0-35.5 738 68.4 64.5-72.0
No 2,255 992 41.2 38.7-43.9 1,263 58.8 56.1-61.3
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,066 435 36.8 32.9-40.9 631 63.2 59.1-67.1
No 2,335 943 38.2 35.7-40.8 1,392 61.8 59.2-64.3

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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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