2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 727 190 32.1 27.7-36.9 537 67.9 63.1-72.3
GENDER
Male 325 102 35.3 28.8-42.5 223 64.7 57.5-71.2
Female 402 88 29.2 23.4-35.7 314 70.8 64.3-76.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 438 112 31.8 26.3-37.9 326 68.2 62.1-73.7
Non-Hispanic Black 147 43 33.7 24.6-44.3 104 66.3 55.7-75.4
Other 132 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 255 83 40.8 33.4-48.7 172 59.2 51.3-66.6
45-64 255 62 27.0 20.5-34.6 193 73.0 65.4-79.5
65+ 207 45 24.8 17.5-34.0 162 75.2 66.0-82.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 176 64 39.8 31.2-49.1 112 60.2 50.9-68.8
Some Post-H.S. 167 59 41.8 32.5-51.7 108 58.2 48.3-67.5
College Graduate 381 66 18.9 14.3-24.6 315 81.1 75.4-85.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 179 55 42.4 32.6-52.7 124 57.6 47.3-67.4
$50,000+ 412 95 26.6 21.3-32.7 317 73.4 67.3-78.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 136 *** *** *** 96 64.7 54.0-74.1

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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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