2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 469 115 23.1 18.6-28.3 354 76.9 71.7-81.4
GENDER
Male 213 61 29.2 21.8-37.8 152 70.8 62.2-78.2
Female 256 54 17.9 13.0-24.0 202 82.1 76.0-87.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 271 82 25.9 20.1-32.6 189 74.1 67.4-79.9
Non-Hispanic Black 104 22 22.9 14.2-34.9 82 77.1 65.1-85.8
Other 82 *** *** *** 74 92.3 79.4-97.4
AGE
18-44 174 *** *** *** 166 94.7 88.3-97.7
45-64 162 41 31.0 22.3-41.2 121 69.0 58.8-77.7
65+ 122 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 121 34 23.8 16.0-33.9 87 76.2 66.1-84.0
Some Post-H.S. 130 36 23.6 15.9-33.7 94 76.4 66.3-84.1
College Graduate 214 44 22.0 15.6-30.0 170 78.0 70.0-84.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 140 40 27.9 19.5-38.3 100 72.1 61.7-80.5
$50,000+ 222 40 16.8 11.5-23.8 182 83.2 76.2-88.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 101 *** *** *** *** *** ***

Back to Cholesterol Awareness.

*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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