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 that you had a heart attack also called a myocardial infarction?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,071 203 4.8 3.9- 5.8 3,868 95.2 94.2-96.1
GENDER
Male 1,796 116 5.9 4.5- 7.5 1,680 94.1 92.5-95.5
Female 2,275 87 3.8 2.7- 5.2 2,188 96.2 94.8-97.3
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,687 197 5.2 4.2- 6.4 3,490 94.8 93.6-95.8
No 318 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,018 46 3.9 2.7- 5.7 972 96.1 94.3-97.3
Overweight 1,306 60 4.1 2.7- 6.2 1,246 95.9 93.8-97.3
Obese 1,318 85 6.7 5.0- 9.0 1,233 93.3 91.0-95.0
Current Smoker
Yes 481 45 7.6 4.6-12.3 436 92.4 87.7-95.4
No 3,444 155 4.5 3.6- 5.6 3,289 95.5 94.4-96.4
History of CVD**
Yes 430 203 48.3 41.3-55.4 227 51.7 44.6-58.7
No 3,625 *** *** *** 3,625 100 . - .
Binge Drinker
Yes 461 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,311 185 5.5 4.4- 6.8 3,126 94.5 93.2-95.6
Heavy Drinker
Yes 193 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,587 190 5.2 4.2- 6.4 3,397 94.8 93.6-95.8
COPD
Yes 318 56 18.7 12.9-26.3 262 81.3 73.7-87.1
No 3,741 143 3.6 2.9- 4.6 3,598 96.4 95.4-97.1
Current Asthma
Yes 436 35 8.7 5.3-13.9 401 91.3 86.1-94.7
No 3,618 168 4.4 3.5- 5.4 3,450 95.6 94.6-96.5
Diabetes
Yes 572 70 14.2 10.0-19.8 502 85.8 80.2-90.0
No 3,494 132 3.4 2.7- 4.3 3,362 96.6 95.7-97.3
Functional Disability
Yes 1,306 126 9.6 7.4-12.4 1,180 90.4 87.6-92.6
No 2,628 74 2.7 2.0- 3.6 2,554 97.3 96.4-98.0
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,133 184 17.7 14.5-21.5 949 82.3 78.5-85.5
No 2,938 19 0.8 0.4- 1.3 2,919 99.2 98.7-99.6

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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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