2022 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 4,420 3,999 90.0 88.7-91.1 421 10.0 8.9-11.3
GENDER
Male 2,088 1,840 87.4 85.3-89.2 248 12.6 10.8-14.7
Female 2,332 2,159 92.4 90.8-93.6 173 7.6 6.4- 9.2
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,999 3,999 100 . - . *** *** ***
No 421 *** *** *** 421 100 . - .
Body Mass Index
Underweight 63 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,141 1,041 90.0 87.3-92.2 100 10.0 7.8-12.7
Overweight 1,438 1,306 89.1 86.3-91.3 132 10.9 8.7-13.7
Obese 1,336 1,233 93.2 91.4-94.6 103 6.8 5.4- 8.6
Current Smoker
Yes 552 472 84.7 80.1-88.3 80 15.3 11.7-19.9
No 3,666 3,357 91.0 89.7-92.2 309 9.0 7.8-10.3
History of CVD**
Yes 472 453 96.2 93.3-97.8 19 3.8 2.2- 6.7
No 3,911 3,514 89.4 88.0-90.6 397 10.6 9.4-12.0
Binge Drinker
Yes 628 554 87.4 83.6-90.4 74 12.6 9.6-16.4
No 3,394 3,118 91.6 90.3-92.8 276 8.4 7.2- 9.7
Heavy Drinker
Yes 260 234 88.8 82.0-93.3 26 11.2 6.7-18.0
No 3,775 3,449 91.1 89.8-92.3 326 8.9 7.7-10.2
COPD
Yes 349 323 93.9 90.7-96.1 26 6.1 3.9- 9.3
No 4,059 3,666 89.6 88.3-90.8 393 10.4 9.2-11.7
Current Asthma
Yes 395 369 93.9 90.3-96.2 26 6.1 3.8- 9.7
No 4,005 3,614 89.6 88.2-90.8 391 10.4 9.2-11.8
Diabetes
Yes 583 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,827 3,441 89.3 88.0-90.5 386 10.7 9.5-12.0
Functional Disability
Yes 1,364 1,234 89.6 87.0-91.7 130 10.4 8.3-13.0
No 2,911 2,641 90.2 88.7-91.6 270 9.8 8.4-11.3
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,314 1,253 94.8 92.5-96.5 61 5.2 3.5- 7.5
No 3,106 2,746 88.0 86.5-89.4 360 12.0 10.6-13.5

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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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