2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 390 128 36.1 30.0-42.7 262 63.9 57.3-70.0
GENDER
Male 155 58 41.9 32.3-52.2 97 58.1 47.8-67.7
Female 235 70 30.6 23.6-38.8 165 69.4 61.2-76.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 240 75 33.8 26.4-42.2 165 66.2 57.8-73.6
Non-Hispanic Black 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 47 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 113 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 141 48 34.8 26.1-44.8 93 65.2 55.2-73.9
65+ 135 38 29.8 20.7-40.8 97 70.2 59.2-79.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 112 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 142 49 38.8 29.2-49.4 93 61.2 50.6-70.8
College Graduate 134 40 30.7 21.9-41.3 94 69.3 58.7-78.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 136 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 177 60 37.8 29.2-47.2 117 62.2 52.8-70.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 77 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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