. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2016 Dec 8;30(3):342–364. doi: 10.1177/0898264316678756

Table 2.

Percent Reporting Behavioral Changes Following a New Hypertension Diagnosis by Sex and Educational Attainment.

	A	B	C

	Hypertensive subsample	Smokers subsample	Inactive subsample

	Antihypertensive medication use	Smoking cessation	Increase physical activity
Women
Education
Less than high school	77.6	15.0	18.3
High school	84.4	18.7	21.3
Some college	85.1	22.4	22.7
Bachelor’s degree	82.1	34.8	34.1
n	2,256	464	1,223
Men
Education
Less than high school	77.6	27.3	29.1
High school	78.4	24.2	28.2
Some college	79.0	27.6	31.3
Bachelor’s degree	80.6	25.5	32.3
n	1,621	393	766
χ²
Women vs. men	^***	^**	^***

Note. Chi-square tests compare whether each behavioral change by education differs by sex (i.e., within each column).

p < .1.

^**

p < .05.

^***

p < .01.