Fig. 1

Percent of adults in Puerto Rico who reported receiving and following medical recommendations as treatment for cardiometabolic conditions. Panel ‘a’ shows recommendations for diet, panel ‘b’ for physical activity, and panel ‘c’ for use of medication. Black bars represent the percent of participants reporting if the corresponding recommendation was ever given by a physician; slanted bars represent the percent of participants who ever followed the recommendation (as a percent of those who ever received the recommendation); dotted bars represent the percent of participants who were currently following the recommendation (as a percent of those who ever received the recommendation). Shown as percent for a subsample of 139 adults who responded having at least one cardiometabolic condition, from a cross-sectional convenience sample of 380 adults aged 30-75y recruited in 2015 from primary care clinics in the San Juan, Puerto Rico metropolitan area