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This study underscores the importance of general obesity and central obesity as risk factors for prehypertension in the Taiwanese adult population. These two indices of obesity have different impacts on men and women.

Less than 2% of adult Taiwanese population reported relying primarily on folk therapies for their common physical discomfort. Users of folk therapies are older, have higher incomes, and have more health problems and poorer health-related QOL, but they neither make more frequent use of conventional medical services nor are they dissatisfied with the available services.