2021 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

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%)
TOTAL 4,255 1,281 26.6 25.0-28.3 2,974 73.4 71.7-75.0
GENDER
Male 1,930 621 29.5 27.0-32.0 1,309 70.5 68.0-73.0
Female 2,325 660 24.2 22.1-26.3 1,665 75.8 73.7-77.9
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,858 1,236 28.4 26.7-30.2 2,622 71.6 69.8-73.3
No 325 27 6.1 3.9- 9.4 298 93.9 90.6-96.1
Body Mass Index
Underweight 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,070 246 19.9 17.1-23.0 824 80.1 77.0-82.9
Overweight 1,355 414 26.1 23.4-28.9 941 73.9 71.1-76.6
Obese 1,426 533 34.5 31.5-37.7 893 65.5 62.3-68.5
Current Smoker
Yes 539 170 28.7 24.4-33.4 369 71.3 66.6-75.6
No 3,629 1,092 26.7 24.9-28.5 2,537 73.3 71.5-75.1
History of CVD**
Yes 502 353 68.6 63.1-73.6 149 31.4 26.4-36.9
No 3,715 910 21.3 19.8-22.9 2,805 78.7 77.1-80.2
Binge Drinker
Yes 551 96 15.9 12.8-19.5 455 84.1 80.5-87.2
No 3,461 1,127 29.0 27.2-30.9 2,334 71.0 69.1-72.8
Heavy Drinker
Yes 215 47 19.0 13.9-25.4 168 81.0 74.6-86.1
No 3,789 1,174 27.5 25.8-29.3 2,615 72.5 70.7-74.2
COPD
Yes 335 174 48.0 40.7-55.5 161 52.0 44.5-59.3
No 3,902 1,096 24.6 23.0-26.2 2,806 75.4 73.8-77.0
Current Asthma
Yes 371 132 33.0 27.3-39.3 239 67.0 60.7-72.7
No 3,871 1,144 26.0 24.3-27.7 2,727 74.0 72.3-75.7
Diabetes
Yes 644 438 64.4 59.5-69.1 206 35.6 30.9-40.5
No 3,608 841 20.1 18.6-21.8 2,767 79.9 78.2-81.4
Functional Disability
Yes 1,318 599 41.2 37.8-44.6 719 58.8 55.4-62.2
No 2,853 666 20.7 19.0-22.6 2,187 79.3 77.4-81.0
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,410 763 51.7 48.5-55.0 647 48.3 45.0-51.5
No 2,844 517 15.5 14.0-17.1 2,327 84.5 82.9-86.0

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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.

**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

†Chronic diseases include heart disease (heart attack/stoke/angina), current asthma, skin cancer, other cancer, COPD, arthritis, depression, kidney disease and diabetes.

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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