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 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 4,309 1,304 27.9 26.4-29.6 3,005 72.1 70.4-73.6
GENDER
Male 1,971 514 24.5 22.3-26.8 1,457 75.5 73.2-77.7
Female 2,338 790 31.2 28.9-33.5 1,548 68.8 66.5-71.1
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,806 1,254 30.3 28.6-32.0 2,552 69.7 68.0-71.4
No 422 38 10.3 6.9-15.2 384 89.7 84.8-93.1
Body Mass Index
Underweight 52 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,125 256 19.2 16.7-22.0 869 80.8 78.0-83.3
Overweight 1,355 427 28.7 25.9-31.7 928 71.3 68.3-74.1
Obese 1,356 530 37.2 34.2-40.3 826 62.8 59.7-65.8
Current Smoker
Yes 451 174 35.1 30.1-40.4 277 64.9 59.6-69.9
No 3,692 1,093 27.2 25.6-29.0 2,599 72.8 71.0-74.4
History of CVD**
Yes 446 248 53.8 47.9-59.6 198 46.2 40.4-52.1
No 3,825 1,039 25.2 23.6-26.9 2,786 74.8 73.1-76.4
Binge Drinker
Yes 505 98 18.8 15.2-23.2 407 81.2 76.8-84.8
No 3,511 1,138 29.8 28.0-31.6 2,373 70.2 68.4-72.0
Heavy Drinker
Yes 171 56 28.5 21.1-37.2 115 71.5 62.8-78.9
No 3,847 1,182 28.3 26.6-30.0 2,665 71.7 70.0-73.4
COPD
Yes 295 186 65.1 58.4-71.2 109 34.9 28.8-41.6
No 4,000 1,109 25.1 23.6-26.8 2,891 74.9 73.2-76.4
Current Asthma
Yes 409 172 39.8 34.2-45.7 237 60.2 54.3-65.8
No 3,879 1,124 26.7 25.1-28.4 2,755 73.3 71.6-74.9
Diabetes
Yes 579 305 51.9 46.8-56.8 274 48.1 43.2-53.2
No 3,727 998 24.3 22.7-26.0 2,729 75.7 74.0-77.3
Functional Disability
Yes 1,308 660 47.4 44.1-50.8 648 52.6 49.2-55.9
No 2,858 617 19.7 18.1-21.5 2,241 80.3 78.5-81.9
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,325 919 69.5 66.4-72.4 406 30.5 27.6-33.6
No 2,984 385 11.6 10.3-13.1 2,599 88.4 86.9-89.7

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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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