Table 3. Correlations between Body Constitution types and five chronic diseases

Chronic diseases	Body Constitution types
	Yang-deficiency	Yin-deficiency	Qi-deficiency	Phlegm-dampness	Dampness-heat	Blood-stasis	Qi-depression	Inherited-special	Neutral
Hypertension	0.15	0.17	< 0.01	0.86	0.67	0.12	0.07	0.76	0.60
Cardiovascular diseases	0.09	0.71	< 0.01	0.53	0.66*	0.83	0.41	0.15	0.65
Diabetes mellitus	0.54*	0.9*	0.18	0.27	0.58*	0.27	0.62	0.80*	0.71
Obesity	0.19*	0.74*	0.48	0.07*	0.32*	0.63*	0.75	0.21*	0.54
Hyperlipidemia	0.20	0.34*	0.7	0.23*	0.15*	0.18	0.85	0.12	0.87

p-value of Fisher’s Exact Test
Statistics with significant differences are bold