2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Cholesterol Awareness

Are you currently taking medicine prescribed by a doctor or other health professional for your cholesterol?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,625 1,088 25.8 23.9-27.8 2,537 74.2 72.2-76.1
Medicaid Region 1 467 145 24.4 19.6-30.0 322 75.6 70.0-80.4
GENDER
Male 193 69 25.5 18.1-34.5 124 74.5 65.5-81.9
Female 274 76 23.5 17.3-31.1 198 76.5 68.9-82.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 387 115 25.7 20.3-31.9 272 74.3 68.1-79.7
Non-Hispanic Black 24 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 52 20 12.9 6.2-24.7 32 87.1 75.3-93.8
AGE
18-44 96 *** *** *** 89 96.1 90.6-98.5
45-64 160 48 20.2 13.6-29.1 112 79.8 70.9-86.4
65+ 201 88 50.1 40.0-60.3 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 121 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 148 43 15.4 10.2-22.7 105 84.6 77.3-89.8
College Graduate 196 60 29.7 22.3-38.4 136 70.3 61.6-77.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 156 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 197 56 20.5 14.8-27.5 141 79.5 72.5-85.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 107 33 25.1 16.2-36.8 74 74.9 63.2-83.8

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*Asked of respondents who report having had their cholesterol checked.
The results are not comparable to those from surveys conducted prior to 2020. Before 2020, this question was only asked of respondents who had a cholesterol test and were told their cholesterol levels were high. However, in the 2021 and 2023 versions, the question was asked of respondents who had a cholesterol test regardless of their cholesterol levels. As a result, the question was posed to many more respondents in 2021 and 2023, leading to a considerably smaller percentage reporting the use of cholesterol medication.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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