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?

(Ever told) you had skin cancer that is not melanoma?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,312 303 5.9 5.2- 6.8 4,009 94.1 93.2-94.8
GENDER
Male 1,969 138 5.8 4.8- 7.1 1,831 94.2 92.9-95.2
Female 2,343 165 6.1 5.0- 7.3 2,178 93.9 92.7-95.0
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,807 298 6.6 5.8- 7.6 3,509 93.4 92.4-94.2
No 424 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 52 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,127 92 6.0 4.7- 7.7 1,035 94.0 92.3-95.3
Overweight 1,357 104 7.3 5.8- 9.2 1,253 92.7 90.8-94.2
Obese 1,353 81 5.1 4.0- 6.6 1,272 94.9 93.4-96.0
Current Smoker
Yes 454 30 5.3 3.5- 7.9 424 94.7 92.1-96.5
No 3,691 260 6.0 5.1- 6.9 3,431 94.0 93.1-94.9
History of CVD**
Yes 445 71 15.5 11.7-20.2 374 84.5 79.8-88.3
No 3,829 230 5.0 4.3- 5.9 3,599 95.0 94.1-95.7
Binge Drinker
Yes 505 18 3.8 2.2- 6.5 487 96.2 93.5-97.8
No 3,513 263 6.3 5.4- 7.3 3,250 93.7 92.7-94.6
Heavy Drinker
Yes 171 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,849 270 6.0 5.2- 6.9 3,579 94.0 93.1-94.8
COPD
Yes 296 37 12.5 8.8-17.5 259 87.5 82.5-91.2
No 4,002 265 5.4 4.6- 6.2 3,737 94.6 93.8-95.4
Current Asthma
Yes 408 35 8.9 5.9-13.2 373 91.1 86.8-94.1
No 3,882 268 5.7 4.9- 6.5 3,614 94.3 93.5-95.1
Diabetes
Yes 579 57 9.3 6.8-12.7 522 90.7 87.3-93.2
No 3,729 245 5.4 4.6- 6.3 3,484 94.6 93.7-95.4
Functional Disability
Yes 1,309 129 8.4 6.8-10.4 1,180 91.6 89.6-93.2
No 2,858 168 5.0 4.1- 5.9 2,690 95.0 94.1-95.9
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,323 250 17.1 14.8-19.7 1,073 82.9 80.3-85.2
No 2,989 53 1.6 1.1- 2.1 2,936 98.4 97.9-98.9

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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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