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https://e-kcj.org As Korea rapidly enters an aged society, the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases continues to increase.1) Although the awareness rate and treatment rate of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and even diabetes mellitus are increasing, the control rates of those chronic non-communicable diseases were stagnated mainly due to social ageing.2) Furthermore, the preventing strategy with a uniform approach to the entire population is reaching its limit. Therefore, it should be converted to a specialized approach according to social and education levels, sex and age groups. Recently, various studies have been reported to identify these social and education level, age and sex-specific problems in managing chronic non-communicable diseases such as hypertension.3)4)