2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 Demographics

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
Region 4 629 172 24.7 21.1-28.7 457 75.3 71.3-78.9
GENDER
Male 296 95 30.6 24.9-37.0 201 69.4 63.0-75.1
Female 333 77 19.7 15.5-24.8 256 80.3 75.2-84.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 415 123 26.9 22.4-31.9 292 73.1 68.1-77.6
Non-Hispanic Black 112 36 28.6 20.2-38.8 76 71.4 61.2-79.8
Other 89 12 9.7 5.1-17.8 77 90.3 82.2-94.9
AGE
18-44 216 *** *** *** 210 97.3 93.7-98.8
45-64 217 56 26.6 20.4-33.9 161 73.4 66.1-79.6
65+ 176 106 60.2 51.4-68.4 70 39.8 31.6-48.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 166 54 31.4 23.9-40.0 112 68.6 60.0-76.1
Some Post-H.S. 173 47 23.1 17.1-30.3 126 76.9 69.7-82.9
College Graduate 287 71 20.3 16.0-25.4 216 79.7 74.6-84.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 179 54 28.2 21.1-36.4 125 71.8 63.6-78.9
$50,000+ 327 78 20.9 16.5-26.0 249 79.1 74.0-83.5
Don't know/Not Sure 118 38 29.2 20.7-39.5 80 70.8 60.5-79.3

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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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