Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients (N=100)
| Characteristic | Frequency |
|---|---|
| Gender | |
| Male | 58 |
| Female | 42 |
| Marital status | |
| Single | 8 |
| Married | 77 |
| Divorced | 9 |
| Widowed | 6 |
| Education | |
| Grade school | 10 |
| High school | 36 |
| Some postsecondary education | 26 |
| Postsecondary education | 28 |
| Employment | |
| Caring for family | 1 |
| Working for profit/pay | 36 |
| Unemployed/looking for a job | 6 |
| Retired | 48 |
| Other | 9 |
| Self-reported ethnicity | |
| Aboriginal/first nation | 1 |
| White | 89 |
| South Asian | 1 |
| Oriental | 4 |
| Other | 4 |
| Declined | 1 |
| Medication coverage | |
| Private | 29 |
| Government | 47 |
| Out of pocket | 15 |
| Private and government | 7 |
| Private and out of pocket | 2 |
| Smoking status | |
| Smoker | 22 |
| Ex-smoker | 41 |
| Non-smoker | 37 |
| Alcohol consumption | |
| No alcohol | 43 |
| Occasional alcohol (eg, 1–3 drinks/week) | 54 |
| 1–2 alcohol drinks/day | 3 |
| Self-reported hypertension | |
| Yes | 63 |
| No | 36 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Self-reported high cholesterol | |
| Yes | 64 |
| No | 33 |
| Unknown | 3 |