SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Mecklenburg County

Cholesterol Awareness

About how long has it been since you last had your blood cholesterol checked?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Past 12 months 1-2 years 2-5 years 5+ years
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 11,528 9,149 74.4 73.0-75.9 1,210 13.0 12.0-14.2 775 8.4 7.5- 9.4 394 4.1 3.4- 4.9
-Mecklenburg County 540 407 70.5 65.2-75.3 71 17.9 13.8-22.8 37 7.9 5.4-11.5 25 3.7 2.3- 5.8
GENDER
Male 198 150 70.1 61.6-77.4 22 15.4 9.9-23.1 16 10.9 6.4-18.1 10 3.6 1.8- 7.2
Female 342 257 70.9 64.0-76.9 49 20.1 14.6-27.0 21 5.2 3.3- 8.3 15 3.8 2.1- 6.9
RACE
White 390 290 68.0 61.8-73.6 52 17.8 13.4-23.3 26 9.1 5.7-14.2 22 5.1 3.1- 8.2
Other 144 113 74.5 63.9-82.9 19 18.8 11.2-29.8 9 5.4 2.6-10.9 3 1.3 0.4- 4.3
AGE
18-44 148 92 61.7 52.1-70.5 33 24.8 17.3-34.3 15 9.7 5.3-17.1 8 3.8 1.7- 8.2
45+ 385 310 77.3 71.7-82.1 38 12.7 8.9-17.8 20 6.3 3.9-10.0 17 3.7 2.2- 6.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 119 97 70.3 56.1-81.4 12 19.0 9.8-33.6 6 8.8 3.2-21.6 4 2.0 0.6- 5.9
Some College + 418 307 70.4 64.7-75.5 59 17.7 13.4-22.9 31 7.7 5.2-11.4 21 4.2 2.6- 6.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 198 153 69.5 59.1-78.3 19 16.8 9.7-27.5 15 9.7 4.9-18.0 11 4.0 1.9- 8.3
$50,000+ 262 190 69.3 62.2-75.5 43 19.6 14.3-26.3 18 7.6 4.6-12.5 11 3.5 1.9- 6.5

Back to Cholesterol Awareness.

^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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 17JUN10.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook