Table 5.

Reasons for Taking Preventive Action to Lower Cardiovascular Disease Risk

	Race/ethnicity*
	White/other n = 618 % (a)	Black n = 210 % (b)	Hispanic n = 171 % (c)
You wanted to improve your health	95	97	95
You wanted to feel better	91	98	95
You wanted to live longer	89	98	90
You wanted to avoid taking medications	68	72	74
You did it for your family	67	59	71
You saw/heard/read information about heart disease	63	71	59
Your healthcare professional encouraged you to take action	43	59a (p=0.002)	54a (p=0.03)
A family member developed heart disease, got sick, or died	34	37	32
A family member encouraged you to take action	30	34	38
You experienced symptoms that you thought were related to heart disease	23	30a (p=0.03)	26
A friend encouraged you to take action	19	22	29a (p=0.005)
A friend developed heart disease, got sick, or died	15	17	14

^*Superscript letters denote statistical significance (p < 0.05) between column differences within rows.