2024 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 4,245 2,808 66.9 65.2-68.6 370 8.3 7.4- 9.3 456 10.8 9.8-12.0 333 7.8 6.8- 8.8 278 6.1 5.3- 7.0
GENDER
Male 1,939 1,324 69.5 67.1-71.9 171 8.1 6.9- 9.5 197 10.3 8.8-12.1 119 5.8 4.7- 7.1 128 6.3 5.1- 7.6
Female 2,306 1,484 64.5 62.1-66.9 199 8.5 7.3-10.0 259 11.3 9.8-13.0 214 9.6 8.2-11.2 150 6.0 5.0- 7.3
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,746 2,438 66.1 64.2-67.8 342 8.6 7.7- 9.7 411 11.1 9.9-12.3 300 7.8 6.9- 9.0 255 6.4 5.6- 7.4
No 420 313 73.1 67.4-78.1 21 5.9 3.3-10.3 37 8.9 6.1-12.8 28 7.4 4.7-11.5 21 4.8 2.9- 7.7
Body Mass Index
Underweight 49 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,113 748 67.3 63.9-70.6 103 8.7 7.0-10.8 128 12.4 10.2-15.0 73 6.6 4.9- 8.9 61 5.0 3.7- 6.6
Overweight 1,335 912 69.7 66.7-72.6 98 6.8 5.4- 8.4 140 10.2 8.4-12.3 90 6.3 4.9- 7.9 95 7.0 5.5- 9.0
Obese 1,336 800 60.8 57.6-63.8 139 10.3 8.5-12.4 154 11.3 9.5-13.5 140 10.8 8.9-13.0 103 6.8 5.5- 8.5
Current Smoker
Yes 447 265 58.8 53.2-64.2 44 8.7 6.3-12.1 46 10.4 7.3-14.6 40 9.7 6.6-13.9 52 12.4 9.1-16.7
No 3,639 2,431 67.7 65.9-69.5 317 8.3 7.4- 9.4 392 11.0 9.8-12.3 279 7.5 6.5- 8.6 220 5.5 4.7- 6.4
History of CVD**
Yes 431 214 55.8 50.0-61.5 32 5.3 3.5- 7.8 47 11.1 8.0-15.3 68 13.3 10.0-17.5 70 14.4 11.0-18.7
No 3,782 2,574 68.1 66.3-69.9 338 8.7 7.7- 9.8 406 10.9 9.7-12.1 260 7.1 6.2- 8.2 204 5.2 4.5- 6.1
Binge Drinker
Yes 499 327 67.0 62.0-71.6 67 12.2 9.3-15.8 65 12.7 9.7-16.5 24 4.6 2.9- 7.3 16 3.5 2.1- 5.9
No 3,464 2,278 66.4 64.5-68.3 286 8.0 7.0- 9.1 367 10.9 9.7-12.3 289 8.2 7.2- 9.4 244 6.5 5.6- 7.5
Heavy Drinker
Yes 169 106 63.9 55.0-72.0 *** *** *** 24 12.6 8.2-19.0 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 3,797 2,496 66.5 64.6-68.2 338 8.5 7.5- 9.6 409 11.1 9.9-12.4 302 7.9 6.9- 9.0 252 6.1 5.2- 7.0
COPD
Yes 285 106 42.6 35.7-49.8 24 7.0 4.5-10.7 43 15.7 11.2-21.6 42 12.3 8.6-17.2 70 22.5 17.2-28.8
No 3,946 2,697 68.8 67.1-70.5 344 8.4 7.5- 9.5 411 10.4 9.3-11.7 290 7.5 6.5- 8.6 204 4.8 4.1- 5.6
Current Asthma
Yes 401 188 46.6 40.9-52.5 50 12.7 9.2-17.4 56 13.6 9.9-18.3 51 13.1 9.4-17.8 56 14.0 10.2-18.9
No 3,824 2,613 69.1 67.3-70.8 315 7.9 6.9- 8.9 398 10.6 9.5-11.8 278 7.1 6.2- 8.2 220 5.3 4.6- 6.2
Diabetes
Yes 568 295 55.4 50.4-60.4 46 6.7 4.8- 9.3 69 10.0 7.7-13.0 89 17.1 13.4-21.5 69 10.7 8.2-13.9
No 3,674 2,512 68.7 66.9-70.5 324 8.6 7.6- 9.7 387 11.0 9.8-12.3 243 6.3 5.4- 7.3 208 5.4 4.6- 6.4
Functional Disability
Yes 1,267 613 49.7 46.3-53.2 102 7.5 6.0- 9.4 175 13.9 11.7-16.4 181 14.7 12.3-17.4 196 14.2 12.0-16.6
No 2,837 2,098 74.3 72.3-76.1 255 8.6 7.5- 9.9 264 9.4 8.2-10.8 144 4.9 4.0- 5.9 76 2.8 2.2- 3.6
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,289 641 50.8 47.5-54.2 116 8.2 6.6-10.1 171 12.8 10.8-15.2 178 14.3 12.0-16.9 183 13.9 11.7-16.4
No 2,956 2,167 73.2 71.2-75.0 254 8.4 7.3- 9.6 285 10.1 8.8-11.5 155 5.2 4.3- 6.3 95 3.1 2.5- 3.9

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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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