2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 772 309 36.3 30.7-42.3 463 63.7 57.7-69.3
GENDER
Male 304 136 43.2 33.8-53.2 168 56.8 46.8-66.2
Female 468 173 30.7 24.3-37.9 295 69.3 62.1-75.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 307 98 35.0 28.0-42.7 209 65.0 57.3-72.0
Non-Hispanic Black 128 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 325 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 238 108 45.1 35.3-55.3 130 54.9 44.7-64.7
45-64 286 122 33.6 24.9-43.5 164 66.4 56.5-75.1
65+ 237 78 27.3 18.9-37.5 159 72.7 62.5-81.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 252 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 244 119 41.8 32.8-51.4 125 58.2 48.6-67.2
College Graduate 275 80 22.6 16.2-30.4 195 77.4 69.6-83.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 287 *** *** *** 152 59.5 49.0-69.1
$50,000+ 315 115 34.5 27.2-42.7 200 65.5 57.3-72.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 170 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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