2023 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?

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  Total
Respond.^
None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,011 2,592 63.2 61.1-65.4 357 10.2 8.8-11.7 463 11.6 10.3-13.0 333 8.5 7.3- 9.9 266 6.6 5.5- 7.7
GENDER
Male 1,778 1,236 68.2 65.0-71.3 154 9.9 7.8-12.4 168 9.1 7.5-10.9 114 7.0 5.4- 9.0 106 5.8 4.4- 7.7
Female 2,233 1,356 58.6 55.6-61.5 203 10.4 8.6-12.5 295 13.9 11.9-16.2 219 9.9 8.1-11.9 160 7.2 5.8- 8.9
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,630 2,337 62.7 60.4-65.0 335 10.6 9.1-12.3 414 11.3 9.9-12.8 298 8.6 7.3-10.1 246 6.8 5.7- 8.1
No 314 214 69.3 62.3-75.5 *** *** *** 40 13.9 9.4-20.0 28 7.7 4.7-12.5 18 4.7 2.7- 8.0
Body Mass Index
Underweight 61 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,005 679 66.7 62.4-70.8 98 12.1 9.2-15.9 118 11.2 8.9-14.1 56 5.4 3.8- 7.7 54 4.5 3.0- 6.6
Overweight 1,292 878 66.1 62.1-69.9 114 9.9 7.3-13.3 129 11.0 8.8-13.6 104 8.0 6.0-10.7 67 5.0 3.5- 7.0
Obese 1,295 749 56.1 52.2-59.9 117 9.9 7.9-12.3 170 12.7 10.2-15.6 144 11.2 9.0-14.0 115 10.1 7.9-12.9
Current Smoker
Yes 470 280 55.3 48.2-62.1 33 11.9 6.8-20.0 50 10.5 7.3-15.0 59 12.2 8.3-17.7 48 10.1 6.8-14.7
No 3,396 2,211 64.4 62.1-66.6 312 10.0 8.6-11.6 401 11.6 10.2-13.2 266 8.0 6.7- 9.5 206 5.9 4.9- 7.2
History of CVD**
Yes 416 199 48.6 41.6-55.6 25 5.8 3.3-10.0 52 11.7 8.1-16.7 64 14.5 10.3-20.0 76 19.5 14.4-25.8
No 3,570 2,383 65.0 62.7-67.2 328 10.6 9.1-12.3 408 11.6 10.2-13.1 265 7.8 6.6- 9.3 186 5.1 4.1- 6.2
Binge Drinker
Yes 460 300 63.6 57.3-69.4 55 11.3 7.8-16.0 63 15.7 11.7-20.8 27 7.3 4.3-12.0 *** *** ***
No 3,257 2,080 62.2 59.7-64.6 282 10.3 8.7-12.1 382 11.4 9.9-13.0 288 9.0 7.6-10.6 225 7.2 6.0- 8.6
Heavy Drinker
Yes 192 128 61.6 51.2-71.0 *** *** *** 19 12.7 7.2-21.4 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,530 2,254 62.5 60.2-64.8 317 10.2 8.7-11.9 427 11.9 10.5-13.5 302 8.7 7.4-10.3 230 6.6 5.5- 7.9
COPD
Yes 307 132 40.6 32.9-48.7 *** *** *** 47 12.4 8.1-18.5 60 21.1 14.4-29.9 57 21.4 15.2-29.1
No 3,691 2,454 65.0 62.7-67.2 344 10.6 9.1-12.3 415 11.6 10.2-13.1 270 7.4 6.3- 8.8 208 5.4 4.5- 6.6
Current Asthma
Yes 426 194 46.3 39.0-53.7 40 11.9 7.0-19.6 71 15.0 11.0-20.1 66 13.3 9.8-17.8 55 13.5 9.4-19.0
No 3,567 2,390 65.2 62.9-67.4 313 10.0 8.5-11.6 389 11.2 9.8-12.8 266 7.9 6.7- 9.4 209 5.7 4.7- 6.9
Diabetes
Yes 564 290 50.9 44.8-56.9 36 8.7 5.8-12.8 77 11.6 8.7-15.2 71 11.4 8.3-15.6 90 17.5 13.1-22.9
No 3,440 2,298 65.0 62.7-67.3 320 10.4 8.8-12.1 386 11.6 10.2-13.2 261 8.0 6.8- 9.5 175 4.9 4.0- 6.1
Functional Disability
Yes 1,267 573 45.0 41.1-49.0 95 9.6 7.2-12.6 194 13.4 11.2-16.1 204 15.8 13.3-18.8 201 16.2 13.5-19.3
No 2,612 1,931 71.5 68.8-74.0 251 10.6 8.9-12.6 255 10.6 9.0-12.4 121 5.3 4.0- 6.9 54 2.1 1.4- 3.1
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,098 468 41.5 37.4-45.8 89 8.7 6.6-11.3 177 15.4 12.7-18.5 184 17.4 14.2-21.2 180 17.1 14.1-20.5
No 2,911 2,124 69.9 67.4-72.3 267 10.6 8.9-12.5 286 10.4 9.0-12.1 149 5.8 4.7- 7.2 85 3.3 2.4- 4.5

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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 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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