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Table 3. Reasons for non-disclosure of Complementary Health Approaches (CHA) use to physician, adults with cardiovascular diseases, National Health Interview Survey, 2012 (N = 3,068).

	Reasons for not disclosing CHA use
1	They didn't ask	45.51%
2	No reason provided	23.89%
3	Didn't think they needed to know	9.44%
4	Weren't using therapy at the time	8.75%
5	Didn't think they knew as much about therapy as you do	6.19%
6	They didn't give you enough time to tell them	5.52%
7	Concerned about a negative reaction	0.39%
8	They discouraged use of therapy in the past	0.20%
9	Worried they would discourage it	0.12%

Notes: Weighted percentages. See text for further detail.