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Cardiovascular Disease - High Cholesterol by Year, New Jersey, 2011 to 2021
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Why Is This Important?
High cholesterol is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (i.e., heart attack, heart failure, or stroke). Regular physical activity and eating a healthy diet can help prevent high cholesterol and improve cholesterol levels that are not optimal. Smoking can decrease levels of "good" HDL cholesterol, which also increases risk for cardiovascular disease.
Definition
Estimated percentage of New Jersey adults (ages 18 and over) who have ever been told by a doctor, nurse or other health professional that they have high cholesterol. The high cholesterol question is administered only in odd years. All prevalence estimates are age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population (except for rates by age group).
Data Notes
- Data have been age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population.
- No data were collected in 2019.
Data Source
Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health(http://www.nj.gov/health/chs/njbrfs/)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of adults from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System who have ever been told they have high cholesterol by a health professional.Denominator:
Number of survey respondents excluding those with missing, "Don't know/Not sure," and "Refused" responses.
Data Issues
Data from the New Jersey Behavioral Risk Factor Survey are intended to be representative of all non-institutionalized adult residents of New Jersey. Due to resource issues, however, adults with limited personal access to phone service or limited command of either English or Spanish are not represented. As with all surveys, also, some error results from nonresponse (e.g., refusal to participate in the survey or to answer specific questions), and faulty measurement (e.g., responses affected by social desirability or recall error). Data collection procedures intended to minimize such errors include the use of strict calling protocols, good questionnaire design, standardization of interviewer behavior, interviewer training, and frequent, on-site interviewer monitoring and supervision. Statistical weighting procedures are also used to minimize the potential impact of disproportionate representation of demographic subgroups defined in terms of age, sex, race, ethnicity, education level, marital status, home ownership, and county of residence. (See also [[a href="query/BRFSSQueryTechNotes.html" Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Data Description and Technical Notes]].)Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective HDS-06
U.S. Target: Reduce the mean total blood cholesterol level among adults aged 20 years and over to 186.4 mg/dL (age-adjusted) by 2030.0
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/heart-disease-and-stroke/reduce-cholesterol-adults-hds-06
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective HDS-7
U.S. Target: Reduce the proportion of adults with high total blood cholesterol levels (240 mg/dL and over) to 13.5 percent (age-adjusted) by 2020.0
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/heart-disease-and-stroke
Health Initiative: CDI
Chronic Disease Indicator CVD03
Description: High cholesterol among adults who have been screened
https://www.cdc.gov/cdi/indicator-definitions/cardiovascular-disease.html
Health Initiative: EPHT
Environmental Public Health Tracking Indicator PV-109
Description: Prevalence among adults of arthritis, diabetes, disability, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, fair or poor self-rated health status
https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/indicatorPages?selectedContentAreaAbbreviation=13&selectedIndicatorId=109