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?

Not including kidney stones, bladder infection or incontinence, were you (Ever told) you have kidney disease?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,073 184 3.8 3.1- 4.7 3,889 96.2 95.3-96.9
GENDER
Male 1,798 54 3.1 2.2- 4.4 1,744 96.9 95.6-97.8
Female 2,275 130 4.4 3.4- 5.7 2,145 95.6 94.3-96.6
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,685 177 4.1 3.3- 5.1 3,508 95.9 94.9-96.7
No 318 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,016 31 2.9 1.7- 4.9 985 97.1 95.1-98.3
Overweight 1,306 50 3.0 2.0- 4.4 1,256 97.0 95.6-98.0
Obese 1,322 84 5.5 4.0- 7.6 1,238 94.5 92.4-96.0
Current Smoker
Yes 482 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,444 152 3.6 2.8- 4.5 3,292 96.4 95.5-97.2
History of CVD**
Yes 433 63 14.6 10.4-20.2 370 85.4 79.8-89.6
No 3,616 119 2.6 2.0- 3.4 3,497 97.4 96.6-98.0
Binge Drinker
Yes 462 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,312 158 4.0 3.1- 5.0 3,154 96.0 95.0-96.9
Heavy Drinker
Yes 194 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,588 162 3.8 3.0- 4.8 3,426 96.2 95.2-97.0
COPD
Yes 318 40 11.0 6.7-17.8 278 89.0 82.2-93.3
No 3,744 143 3.2 2.5- 4.0 3,601 96.8 96.0-97.5
Current Asthma
Yes 438 37 6.4 3.9-10.3 401 93.6 89.7-96.1
No 3,619 147 3.5 2.8- 4.4 3,472 96.5 95.6-97.2
Diabetes
Yes 576 76 11.5 8.2-16.0 500 88.5 84.0-91.8
No 3,494 108 2.7 2.1- 3.5 3,386 97.3 96.5-97.9
Functional Disability
Yes 1,307 118 8.3 6.4-10.8 1,189 91.7 89.2-93.6
No 2,630 58 1.6 1.1- 2.3 2,572 98.4 97.7-98.9
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,139 167 14.5 11.7-17.8 972 85.5 82.2-88.3
No 2,934 17 0.5 0.3- 0.8 2,917 99.5 99.2-99.7

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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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