2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 906 207 22.9 19.9-26.2 699 77.1 73.8-80.1
GENDER
Male 431 104 24.8 20.3-29.9 327 75.2 70.1-79.7
Female 475 103 21.3 17.4-25.8 372 78.7 74.2-82.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 536 128 24.2 20.3-28.6 408 75.8 71.4-79.7
Non-Hispanic Black 199 62 29.4 22.7-37.2 137 70.6 62.8-77.3
Other 153 12 5.5 2.9-10.2 141 94.5 89.8-97.1
AGE
18-44 347 12 3.0 1.6- 5.5 335 97.0 94.5-98.4
45-64 321 74 26.6 21.3-32.8 247 73.4 67.2-78.7
65+ 218 116 54.1 46.2-61.8 102 45.9 38.2-53.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 219 62 28.7 22.3-36.0 157 71.3 64.0-77.7
Some Post-H.S. 185 44 23.4 17.4-30.8 141 76.6 69.2-82.6
College Graduate 498 100 18.4 15.1-22.3 398 81.6 77.7-84.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 275 69 24.5 19.1-30.8 206 75.5 69.2-80.9
$50,000+ 458 86 18.9 15.1-23.5 372 81.1 76.5-84.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 171 51 30.8 23.3-39.4 120 69.2 60.6-76.7

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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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