2022 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 4,432 2,915 65.5 63.5-67.4 373 8.2 7.3- 9.3 443 9.2 8.2-10.3 378 9.2 8.0-10.5 323 7.9 6.7- 9.3
GENDER
Male 2,095 1,445 70.1 67.5-72.5 163 7.8 6.4- 9.4 182 7.6 6.4- 9.1 151 7.4 6.1- 8.9 154 7.1 5.8- 8.7
Female 2,337 1,470 61.2 58.3-64.1 210 8.7 7.4-10.2 261 10.6 9.0-12.4 227 10.9 9.1-13.0 169 8.6 6.8-11.0
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,935 2,567 65.4 63.4-67.4 335 8.1 7.1- 9.3 404 9.5 8.4-10.7 340 9.3 8.0-10.7 289 7.7 6.6- 9.0
No 414 292 69.0 62.8-74.5 32 9.7 6.6-14.1 31 6.3 4.0- 9.6 33 9.6 6.3-14.3 26 5.5 3.1- 9.6
Body Mass Index
Underweight 64 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,148 795 68.2 64.5-71.8 91 8.8 6.9-11.1 98 7.9 6.2- 9.9 93 8.6 6.5-11.3 71 6.6 4.8- 9.0
Overweight 1,430 968 69.1 66.1-72.1 124 8.3 6.7-10.2 150 9.0 7.5-10.9 101 8.0 6.3-10.1 87 5.5 4.2- 7.2
Obese 1,328 783 58.4 54.6-62.1 117 8.2 6.5-10.3 154 11.2 9.0-13.9 143 10.8 8.7-13.2 131 11.4 8.7-14.8
Current Smoker
Yes 549 305 52.1 45.9-58.1 34 7.2 4.7-10.9 55 9.3 6.6-12.9 76 16.3 11.6-22.3 79 15.1 10.9-20.7
No 3,674 2,460 67.2 65.2-69.2 319 8.4 7.4- 9.6 371 9.2 8.1-10.5 291 8.3 7.2- 9.5 233 6.9 5.7- 8.3
History of CVD**
Yes 471 229 47.1 40.4-54.0 26 6.7 3.8-11.6 53 9.5 6.8-13.2 83 18.6 13.5-25.1 80 18.1 13.5-23.8
No 3,923 2,669 67.9 65.9-69.9 343 8.4 7.4- 9.6 385 9.1 8.0-10.3 292 8.1 7.0- 9.3 234 6.5 5.4- 7.9
Binge Drinker
Yes 637 427 67.7 63.1-72.0 64 10.4 7.7-13.8 76 10.6 8.2-13.6 36 6.9 4.7-10.2 34 4.3 2.8- 6.6
No 3,386 2,204 64.4 62.1-66.6 280 8.0 7.0- 9.3 332 9.2 8.0-10.6 314 9.7 8.3-11.2 256 8.7 7.2-10.4
Heavy Drinker
Yes 262 165 57.9 49.9-65.4 25 12.2 7.5-19.1 29 9.6 6.3-14.4 22 12.1 7.2-19.6 21 8.2 4.9-13.6
No 3,774 2,473 65.4 63.3-67.5 318 8.2 7.2- 9.3 385 9.5 8.4-10.8 325 8.9 7.7-10.3 273 8.0 6.7- 9.6
COPD
Yes 342 134 38.0 30.4-46.2 19 5.1 3.0- 8.6 39 9.4 6.2-14.0 64 20.8 14.2-29.3 86 26.8 20.2-34.5
No 4,077 2,777 67.9 65.9-69.8 354 8.5 7.5- 9.7 403 9.1 8.1-10.3 312 8.2 7.2- 9.5 231 6.2 5.1- 7.6
Current Asthma
Yes 387 168 42.1 35.5-49.1 39 8.9 6.0-12.9 58 12.4 9.0-16.8 71 23.1 16.8-30.9 51 13.5 9.0-19.8
No 4,024 2,734 68.1 66.1-70.0 332 8.2 7.2- 9.3 384 8.9 7.8-10.0 306 7.8 6.8- 9.0 268 7.0 5.9- 8.4
Diabetes
Yes 575 295 50.8 45.2-56.5 37 5.1 3.4- 7.6 71 10.6 7.9-14.1 90 18.5 14.3-23.7 82 14.9 11.2-19.5
No 3,846 2,615 67.8 65.8-69.8 335 8.7 7.6- 9.8 371 9.0 7.9-10.2 287 8.0 6.8- 9.3 238 6.6 5.5- 7.9
Functional Disability
Yes 1,352 637 45.7 41.9-49.5 92 6.5 5.0- 8.4 145 10.1 8.0-12.6 229 17.9 15.1-21.1 249 19.9 16.6-23.5
No 2,928 2,169 75.0 72.9-76.9 267 9.1 7.9-10.5 285 8.7 7.6- 9.9 139 5.0 4.1- 6.2 68 2.2 1.6- 3.0
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,293 601 44.7 40.9-48.6 101 7.3 5.7- 9.3 158 10.6 8.7-12.8 211 17.7 14.8-21.1 222 19.7 16.6-23.3
No 3,138 2,314 73.4 71.2-75.4 272 8.6 7.5- 9.9 284 8.5 7.4- 9.9 167 6.0 4.9- 7.3 101 3.5 2.5- 4.8

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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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