2021 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

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
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 435 140 29.9 24.1-36.5 295 70.1 63.5-75.9
Region 3 416 131 29.4 24.5-34.7 285 70.6 65.3-75.5
Region 4 629 172 24.7 21.1-28.7 457 75.3 71.3-78.9
Region 5 579 144 25.1 21.3-29.3 435 74.9 70.7-78.7
Region 6 459 149 25.9 21.9-30.3 310 74.1 69.7-78.1
Region 7 608 142 24.2 20.5-28.4 466 75.8 71.6-79.5
Region 8 694 268 30.8 26.7-35.2 426 69.2 64.8-73.3
Region 9 & 10 435 135 27.0 22.7-31.8 300 73.0 68.2-77.3
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,604 547 28.1 25.5-30.9 1,057 71.9 69.1-74.5
Piedmont 2,112 563 24.8 22.7-27.0 1,549 75.2 73.0-77.3
Western NC 539 171 29.4 24.3-35.1 368 70.6 64.9-75.7
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 361 106 27.2 20.8-34.7 255 72.8 65.3-79.2
Northwest 628 217 32.3 28.0-36.9 411 67.7 63.1-72.0
Charlotte 504 125 22.4 18.6-26.7 379 77.6 73.3-81.4
Greensboro 443 127 28.5 24.0-33.5 316 71.5 66.5-76.0
Southern Regional 683 250 27.5 23.7-31.6 433 72.5 68.4-76.3
Southeast 322 124 33.3 27.6-39.6 198 66.7 60.4-72.4
Wake 708 151 21.1 17.8-24.8 557 78.9 75.2-82.2
Area L & Eastern 606 181 27.1 23.1-31.6 425 72.9 68.4-76.9
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 456 141 28.7 23.1-35.0 315 71.3 65.0-76.9
Region 2 648 199 29.4 25.5-33.6 449 70.6 66.4-74.5
Region 3 642 177 24.5 20.9-28.4 465 75.5 71.6-79.1
Region 4 906 207 22.9 19.9-26.2 699 77.1 73.8-80.1
Region 5 1,029 382 29.5 26.3-32.8 647 70.5 67.2-73.7
Region 6 574 175 27.1 23.0-31.6 399 72.9 68.4-77.0

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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.

See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

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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