2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Cholesterol Awareness

Are you currently taking medicine prescribed by a doctor or other health professional for your blood cholesterol?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,255 1,281 26.6 25.0-28.3 2,974 73.4 71.7-75.0
Medicaid Region 1 456 141 28.7 23.1-35.0 315 71.3 65.0-76.9
GENDER
Male 209 67 32.4 24.3-41.8 142 67.6 58.2-75.7
Female 247 74 25.2 18.6-33.3 173 74.8 66.7-81.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 370 121 30.8 24.5-37.9 249 69.2 62.1-75.5
Non-Hispanic Black 22 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 60 12 9.8 4.8-19.0 48 90.2 81.0-95.2
AGE
18-44 101 *** *** *** 93 91.2 81.8-96.0
45-64 182 43 27.2 18.6-37.9 139 72.8 62.1-81.4
65+ 165 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 146 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 125 38 22.6 15.4-31.7 87 77.4 68.3-84.6
College Graduate 183 45 19.4 14.3-25.7 138 80.6 74.3-85.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 174 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 187 43 18.9 13.8-25.4 144 81.1 74.6-86.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 95 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Asked of respondents who report having had their cholesterol checked. NOTE: These results are NOT COMPARABLE to those from earlier surveys. On previous surveys, this question was asked of respondents who had a cholesterol test AND were told their cholesterol levels were high. The 2021 version was asked of respondents who had a cholesterol test REGARDLESS of whether their levels were high. As a result, the 2021 version was asked of many more respondents, leading to a considerably smaller percentage reporting use of cholesterol medication.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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