2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 455 139 33.1 27.7-39.0 316 66.9 61.0-72.3
GENDER
Male 193 75 42.6 34.1-51.6 118 57.4 48.4-65.9
Female 262 64 24.3 18.2-31.5 198 75.7 68.5-81.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 332 98 30.3 24.4-36.8 234 69.7 63.2-75.6
Non-Hispanic Black 69 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 48 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 130 53 43.5 33.8-53.7 77 56.5 46.3-66.2
45-64 168 42 30.0 21.4-40.4 126 70.0 59.6-78.6
65+ 150 44 23.3 16.3-32.2 106 76.7 67.8-83.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 134 56 41.3 31.5-51.9 78 58.7 48.1-68.5
Some Post-H.S. 116 38 29.0 20.2-39.6 78 71.0 60.4-79.8
College Graduate 202 45 28.0 20.0-37.8 157 72.0 62.2-80.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 139 55 40.9 31.6-51.0 84 59.1 49.0-68.4
$50,000+ 205 56 30.5 23.1-39.2 149 69.5 60.8-76.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 111 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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