%0 Journal Article %T Watch Your Waistline %A Chaeshin Chu %A Hae-Wol Cho %J Archive of "Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives". %D 2018 %R 10.24171/j.phrp.2018.9.2.01 %X Hypertension is a common, non-life-threatening disease which exacerbates cardiovascular disease and greatly influences human health indirectly. There are 2 main types of hypertension: secondary hypertension which is caused by another medical condition, and essential hypertension which has no identifiable cause. Essential hypertension is the most common form of hypertension [1] %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5935144/