2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 648 199 29.4 25.5-33.6 449 70.6 66.4-74.5
GENDER
Male 298 104 32.1 26.4-38.3 194 67.9 61.7-73.6
Female 350 95 27.0 21.7-33.1 255 73.0 66.9-78.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 467 152 33.8 29.1-38.8 315 66.2 61.2-70.9
Non-Hispanic Black 102 33 26.1 17.8-36.7 69 73.9 63.3-82.2
Other 67 11 10.4 5.2-19.7 56 89.6 80.3-94.8
AGE
18-44 197 11 3.8 2.1- 6.9 186 96.2 93.1-97.9
45-64 245 81 35.6 29.1-42.6 164 64.4 57.4-70.9
65+ 192 106 60.0 51.8-67.7 86 40.0 32.3-48.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 192 73 38.7 31.3-46.6 119 61.3 53.4-68.7
Some Post-H.S. 193 63 26.3 20.3-33.4 130 73.7 66.6-79.7
College Graduate 263 63 21.1 16.3-26.8 200 78.9 73.2-83.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 214 82 34.3 27.2-42.2 132 65.7 57.8-72.8
$50,000+ 288 74 24.6 19.2-30.9 214 75.4 69.1-80.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 143 43 30.8 22.3-40.8 100 69.2 59.2-77.7

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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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