2024 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 3,288 941 30.4 28.5-32.3 2,347 69.6 67.7-71.5
Medicaid Region 4 875 214 25.5 22.2-29.1 661 74.5 70.9-77.8
GENDER
Male 382 110 27.9 23.0-33.4 272 72.1 66.6-77.0
Female 493 104 23.3 19.1-28.2 389 76.7 71.8-80.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 501 102 23.4 19.2-28.2 399 76.6 71.8-80.8
Non-Hispanic Black 176 51 27.5 20.6-35.5 125 72.5 64.5-79.4
Other 192 60 29.8 22.7-38.0 132 70.2 62.0-77.3
AGE
18-44 342 108 31.7 26.2-37.7 234 68.3 62.3-73.8
45-64 307 60 19.1 14.5-24.7 247 80.9 75.3-85.5
65+ 210 44 24.1 17.6-32.0 166 75.9 68.0-82.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 246 80 31.3 24.9-38.5 166 68.7 61.5-75.1
Some Post-H.S. 214 69 32.7 26.0-40.2 145 67.3 59.8-74.0
College Graduate 414 65 14.1 10.9-18.0 349 85.9 82.0-89.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 219 70 31.2 24.4-39.0 149 68.8 61.0-75.6
$50,000+ 438 87 20.5 16.4-25.2 351 79.5 74.8-83.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 218 57 30.5 23.5-38.6 161 69.5 61.4-76.5

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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 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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