2023 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 had asthma?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,079 637 14.8 13.3-16.5 3,442 85.2 83.5-86.7
GENDER
Male 1,801 203 10.8 9.0-13.0 1,598 89.2 87.0-91.0
Female 2,278 434 18.5 16.3-21.0 1,844 81.5 79.0-83.7
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,690 587 15.2 13.6-17.0 3,103 84.8 83.0-86.4
No 319 36 11.3 7.5-16.5 283 88.7 83.5-92.5
Body Mass Index
Underweight 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,017 130 13.4 10.4-17.1 887 86.6 82.9-89.6
Overweight 1,310 163 11.1 9.1-13.5 1,147 88.9 86.5-90.9
Obese 1,323 278 20.3 17.3-23.7 1,045 79.7 76.3-82.7
Current Smoker
Yes 485 86 14.0 10.5-18.3 399 86.0 81.7-89.5
No 3,447 535 15.3 13.6-17.2 2,912 84.7 82.8-86.4
History of CVD**
Yes 437 104 22.4 17.4-28.5 333 77.6 71.5-82.6
No 3,618 528 13.8 12.3-15.6 3,090 86.2 84.4-87.7
Binge Drinker
Yes 463 61 13.4 9.8-18.2 402 86.6 81.8-90.2
No 3,316 543 15.7 13.9-17.6 2,773 84.3 82.4-86.1
Heavy Drinker
Yes 194 28 17.9 10.7-28.5 166 82.1 71.5-89.3
No 3,594 579 15.2 13.6-17.0 3,015 84.8 83.0-86.4
COPD
Yes 320 134 37.7 30.2-45.9 186 62.3 54.1-69.8
No 3,746 498 13.0 11.5-14.6 3,248 87.0 85.4-88.5
Current Asthma
Yes 440 440 100 . - . *** *** ***
No 3,629 187 5.1 4.3- 6.2 3,442 94.9 93.8-95.7
Diabetes
Yes 577 122 19.8 15.6-24.7 455 80.2 75.3-84.4
No 3,497 515 14.2 12.6-15.9 2,982 85.8 84.1-87.4
Functional Disability
Yes 1,310 299 22.7 19.4-26.3 1,011 77.3 73.7-80.6
No 2,632 320 11.4 9.9-13.2 2,312 88.6 86.8-90.1
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,144 402 34.3 30.5-38.3 742 65.7 61.7-69.5
No 2,935 235 8.8 7.3-10.5 2,700 91.2 89.5-92.7

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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 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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