2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 486 140 30.9 26.1-36.3 346 69.1 63.7-73.9
GENDER
Male 209 65 32.2 25.3-40.0 144 67.8 60.0-74.7
Female 277 75 29.9 23.4-37.3 202 70.1 62.7-76.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 322 78 25.6 20.2-31.8 244 74.4 68.2-79.8
Non-Hispanic Black 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 84 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 146 58 41.9 32.7-51.8 88 58.1 48.2-67.3
45-64 172 49 28.0 20.9-36.4 123 72.0 63.6-79.1
65+ 160 30 18.4 12.1-26.9 130 81.6 73.1-87.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 160 60 37.3 28.7-46.8 100 62.7 53.2-71.3
Some Post-H.S. 135 39 31.3 22.7-41.3 96 68.7 58.7-77.3
College Graduate 189 40 22.1 15.9-29.9 149 77.9 70.1-84.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 157 58 39.7 30.8-49.3 99 60.3 50.7-69.2
$50,000+ 199 48 28.3 20.9-37.0 151 71.7 63.0-79.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 130 34 24.8 17.1-34.6 96 75.2 65.4-82.9

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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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