2024 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 4,314 173 3.5 2.9- 4.2 4,141 96.5 95.8-97.1
GENDER
Male 1,974 74 3.6 2.8- 4.7 1,900 96.4 95.3-97.2
Female 2,340 99 3.4 2.7- 4.4 2,241 96.6 95.6-97.3
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,809 165 3.9 3.2- 4.7 3,644 96.1 95.3-96.8
No 425 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 52 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,130 42 3.2 2.3- 4.7 1,088 96.8 95.3-97.7
Overweight 1,355 51 3.5 2.5- 5.0 1,304 96.5 95.0-97.5
Obese 1,354 63 4.0 2.9- 5.5 1,291 96.0 94.5-97.1
Current Smoker
Yes 454 24 4.7 2.7- 7.9 430 95.3 92.1-97.3
No 3,693 139 3.3 2.7- 4.1 3,554 96.7 95.9-97.3
History of CVD**
Yes 444 62 11.9 8.7-16.0 382 88.1 84.0-91.3
No 3,832 109 2.7 2.1- 3.4 3,723 97.3 96.6-97.9
Binge Drinker
Yes 505 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,514 150 3.6 3.0- 4.4 3,364 96.4 95.6-97.0
Heavy Drinker
Yes 171 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,850 154 3.5 2.9- 4.2 3,696 96.5 95.8-97.1
COPD
Yes 295 34 10.3 6.5-15.8 261 89.7 84.2-93.5
No 4,005 138 3.0 2.5- 3.7 3,867 97.0 96.3-97.5
Current Asthma
Yes 409 23 3.6 2.2- 5.7 386 96.4 94.3-97.8
No 3,883 147 3.5 2.8- 4.2 3,736 96.5 95.8-97.2
Diabetes
Yes 574 72 11.7 8.8-15.4 502 88.3 84.6-91.2
No 3,736 101 2.3 1.8- 2.9 3,635 97.7 97.1-98.2
Functional Disability
Yes 1,309 106 6.7 5.3- 8.5 1,203 93.3 91.5-94.7
No 2,859 61 2.1 1.6- 2.9 2,798 97.9 97.1-98.4
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,320 157 11.5 9.5-13.8 1,163 88.5 86.2-90.5
No 2,994 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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