2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Sugar Sweetened Beverages

HNC2030 sugar-sweetened beverage indicator*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,057 949 32.2 29.8-34.6 2,108 67.8 65.4-70.2
Medicaid Region 1 382 107 34.4 27.6-41.8 275 65.6 58.2-72.4
GENDER
Male 160 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Female 222 56 35.1 26.1-45.3 166 64.9 54.7-73.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 314 85 33.7 26.5-41.7 229 66.3 58.3-73.5
Non-Hispanic Black 19 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 46 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 137 *** *** *** *** *** ***
65+ 159 34 25.2 16.5-36.6 125 74.8 63.4-83.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 109 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 124 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 147 27 20.0 12.3-31.0 120 80.0 69.0-87.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 131 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 157 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 94 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Yes=1+ drink per day of either regular soda or pop that contains sugar or sugar-sweetened fruit drinks (such as Kool-aid and lemonade) or sweet tea, and sports or energy drinks (such as Gatorade and Red Bull).
Does not include diet soda, diet pop, 100% fruit juice, diet drinks, or artificially sweetened drinks.

No=Less than 1 drink per day of either regular soda or pop that contains sugar or sugar-sweetened fruit drinks (such as Kool-aid and lemonade) or sweet tea, and sports or energy drinks (such as Gatorade and Red Bull).
Does not include diet soda, diet pop, 100% fruit juice, diet drinks, or artificially sweetened drinks.

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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