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?

(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 4,478 1,308 28.0 26.2-29.8 3,170 72.0 70.2-73.8
GENDER
Male 2,111 535 24.1 21.7-26.6 1,576 75.9 73.4-78.3
Female 2,367 773 31.6 29.0-34.2 1,594 68.4 65.8-71.0
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,980 1,234 29.5 27.6-31.4 2,746 70.5 68.6-72.4
No 416 54 14.7 10.2-20.8 362 85.3 79.2-89.8
Body Mass Index
Underweight 64 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,153 281 21.6 18.6-25.0 872 78.4 75.0-81.4
Overweight 1,450 414 26.7 23.9-29.7 1,036 73.3 70.3-76.1
Obese 1,344 482 35.3 31.9-38.8 862 64.7 61.2-68.1
Current Smoker
Yes 556 204 37.4 31.5-43.8 352 62.6 56.2-68.5
No 3,713 1,048 26.8 25.0-28.7 2,665 73.2 71.3-75.0
History of CVD**
Yes 475 264 59.1 52.5-65.5 211 40.9 34.5-47.5
No 3,968 1,031 24.4 22.7-26.2 2,937 75.6 73.8-77.3
Binge Drinker
Yes 639 110 15.9 12.7-19.7 529 84.1 80.3-87.3
No 3,430 1,091 30.9 28.8-33.1 2,339 69.1 66.9-71.2
Heavy Drinker
Yes 259 70 24.6 18.7-31.6 189 75.4 68.4-81.3
No 3,821 1,136 28.8 26.8-30.8 2,685 71.2 69.2-73.2
COPD
Yes 348 228 68.4 61.2-74.8 120 31.6 25.2-38.8
No 4,118 1,074 24.5 22.8-26.3 3,044 75.5 73.7-77.2
Current Asthma
Yes 402 195 50.2 43.2-57.1 207 49.8 42.9-56.8
No 4,055 1,105 25.5 23.8-27.3 2,950 74.5 72.7-76.2
Diabetes
Yes 589 291 52.0 46.5-57.5 298 48.0 42.5-53.5
No 3,881 1,014 24.6 22.8-26.4 2,867 75.4 73.6-77.2
Functional Disability
Yes 1,380 687 48.4 44.7-52.1 693 51.6 47.9-55.3
No 2,947 581 18.2 16.5-20.0 2,366 81.8 80.0-83.5
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,327 926 70.8 67.4-74.0 401 29.2 26.0-32.6
No 3,151 382 11.4 10.1-12.8 2,769 88.6 87.2-89.9

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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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