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Published in final edited form as: Public Health Genomics. 2012 Dec 12;16(3):83–93. doi: 10.1159/000343793

Table 4.

Total number of lifestyle causal beliefs held compared between participants who did versus did not hold genetic causal beliefs: The ENGAGE structured interview study with 205 participants in New York City, June–Sept 2010

Genetic causal belief	Obesity			Type 2 diabetes			Heart disease			Cancer
Genetic causal belief	n	mean (SD)	sig.	n	mean (SD)	sig.	n	mean (SD)	sig.	n	mean (SD)	sig.
Yes (‘a lot’/‘some’)	141	4.04 (0.97)	p = 0.025	168	3.69 (1.23)	p = 0.001	161	4.05 (1.11)	p = 0.082	154	2.73 (1.42)	p = 0.052
No (‘a little’/‘not at all’)	64	3.68 (1.12)		37	2.92 (1.38)		44	3.70 (1.32)		51	2.29 (1.24)