2024 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 3,288 941 30.4 28.5-32.3 2,347 69.6 67.7-71.5
Medicaid Region 5 421 120 30.6 25.6-36.1 301 69.4 63.9-74.4
GENDER
Male 193 57 32.3 25.0-40.5 136 67.7 59.5-75.0
Female 228 63 29.1 22.4-36.8 165 70.9 63.2-77.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 254 65 28.0 22.1-34.8 189 72.0 65.2-77.9
Non-Hispanic Black 80 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 82 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 147 36 26.7 19.2-35.7 111 73.3 64.3-80.8
45-64 134 46 35.9 27.0-45.8 88 64.1 54.2-73.0
65+ 135 36 28.1 19.9-38.2 99 71.9 61.8-80.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 144 48 34.3 25.7-44.0 96 65.7 56.0-74.3
Some Post-H.S. 121 36 30.1 21.8-39.9 85 69.9 60.1-78.2
College Graduate 155 35 23.6 16.8-32.1 120 76.4 67.9-83.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 135 38 28.7 20.6-38.4 97 71.3 61.6-79.4
$50,000+ 189 50 27.4 20.8-35.1 139 72.6 64.9-79.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 97 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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