Talk:Prehypertension

Americanism

The ICD9 code currently used, 796.2, links to raised blood pressure reading, with nothing about consistant reading (i.e. might apply as a one-off to somebody who is temporarily emotionally distressed, but normally has a entirely normal reading) - as the website's explanation states "This category is to be used to record an episode of elevated blood pressure in a patient in whom no formal diagnosis of hypertension has been made, or as an incidental finding". That seems very different from a patient who truely has a consistant and persistant BP of say 137/88.

Term not generally used here in UK (except perhaps informally to mock the seemingly endless (US) reduction in target thresholds, aka "pre-Diabetes" rather than say Impaired glucose tolerance). So unless term is official defined and used in other english-speaking areas, then the article needs to make clear a US classification term. David Ruben ^Talk 14:04, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Add Exercise section under Treatment

& update broken links for article Hardingla (talk) 20:43, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review

Peer review for @Hardingla's edits Krumpp (talk) 15:47, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi Lori! This looks great so far. Here's my review:

Lead

Lead paragraph has been successfully updated to reflect more up to date definitions, which looks clear, professional, and is easy to understand

One suggestion might be to put the current definition in the first sentence, not what it was originally- could be helpful for users

Content

I think the content looks good for the type of article that this is; the crucial information is there, but it isn’t too overwhelming with lots of extraneous information

The exercise addition was a great addition content wise for this article!

One question I had while reading this (and the answer might be no), are there other lifestyle modifications that are recommended for prehypertension? Like getting good sleep or minimizing stress? Are medications ever recommended for prehypertensive patients or is that more for hypertension?

Tone and Balance

Use of official guidelines as a lot of references help make sure that the tone of the article is not biased towards any particular viewpoint.

Sources and References

Checked a sample of links and references, and all were working well

A few of the references are out of date, but that may be because no new guidelines/information has been produced to replace that reference (ie. AHA statement, reference #21)

Checked references in the exercise section; information has been well represented based on references #10-13

I would link out the types of exercises to other wikipedia pages (for example, you can link the word Yoga to the Yoga wikipedia page)

Organization

Content is well written as a whole- concise, clear, and easy to read

No grammar issues, some sentences might be a little long- however it is difficult to relay this information without using long sentences

Very small suggestion, but the home monitoring section could be added as a subsection to the monitoring section

Krumpp (talk) 15:50, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

thank you Poppy for the Peer Review.

I made the suggested changes including updating the lead, added sleep/stress subheadings/content and added for what co-medical conditions that medication might be recommended. I updated the risk of stroke/heart attack reference & content and linked out to other wikipedia references as suggested. also changed home monitoring to be a subsection. Thanks so much for your help and time to review!!

Hardingla (talk) 21:27, 19 December 2022 (UTC)