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 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 4,066 1,303 27.2 25.4-29.1 2,763 72.8 70.9-74.6
GENDER
Male 1,791 456 23.0 20.4-25.8 1,335 77.0 74.2-79.6
Female 2,275 847 31.0 28.5-33.7 1,428 69.0 66.3-71.5
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,681 1,238 29.0 27.1-31.1 2,443 71.0 68.9-72.9
No 318 48 10.8 7.5-15.2 270 89.2 84.8-92.5
Body Mass Index
Underweight 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,011 243 18.0 15.2-21.1 768 82.0 78.9-84.8
Overweight 1,305 388 24.7 21.7-28.1 917 75.3 71.9-78.3
Obese 1,324 539 38.3 34.6-42.0 785 61.7 58.0-65.4
Current Smoker
Yes 481 161 31.6 25.8-38.1 320 68.4 61.9-74.2
No 3,438 1,090 26.4 24.5-28.4 2,348 73.6 71.6-75.5
History of CVD**
Yes 430 260 60.2 53.1-66.8 170 39.8 33.2-46.9
No 3,612 1,033 23.4 21.6-25.3 2,579 76.6 74.7-78.4
Binge Drinker
Yes 463 98 17.5 13.6-22.4 365 82.5 77.6-86.4
No 3,303 1,116 29.1 27.0-31.2 2,187 70.9 68.8-73.0
Heavy Drinker
Yes 193 56 23.7 16.7-32.6 137 76.3 67.4-83.3
No 3,581 1,159 27.6 25.6-29.6 2,422 72.4 70.4-74.4
COPD
Yes 320 201 62.5 53.8-70.4 119 37.5 29.6-46.2
No 3,736 1,094 24.3 22.5-26.2 2,642 75.7 73.8-77.5
Current Asthma
Yes 439 216 41.8 35.1-48.8 223 58.2 51.2-64.9
No 3,611 1,079 25.4 23.6-27.4 2,532 74.6 72.6-76.4
Diabetes
Yes 576 320 53.5 47.5-59.4 256 46.5 40.6-52.5
No 3,487 983 23.5 21.7-25.4 2,504 76.5 74.6-78.3
Functional Disability
Yes 1,305 681 48.0 44.2-51.9 624 52.0 48.1-55.8
No 2,627 571 17.3 15.6-19.2 2,056 82.7 80.8-84.4
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,139 849 72.1 68.0-75.9 290 27.9 24.1-32.0
No 2,927 454 13.2 11.6-14.9 2,473 86.8 85.1-88.4

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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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