“…Filipinos face high rates of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension compared to non-Hispanic Whites and other Asian American subgroups [2,3,4,5,6]. Additionally, Koreans face higher rates of hypertension, hypocholesteremia, cancer, and diabetes [7,8]. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a common chronic disease reported in Filipinos and Korean Americans and frequently is associated with poor dietary and lifestyle factors, including physical inactivity and elevated stress [1,9,10,11,12,13].…”