User:Gasdoc1991/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Hypertensive heart disease

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate a medical topic, and this was the first that seemed interesting to me that I came across. It is an important article because hypertension and its downstream effects such as hypertensive heart disease are relatively common in the United States. My first impression was that the article has a good organization of topics and subtopics and easy to understand explanations.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section


 * It is concise, however, does not seem to cover the main points of the article. It focused heavily on the ICD definition of hypertensive heart disease and the subcategories of ICD codes.

Content


 * It included a good breadth and depth of content to give the lay reader a digestible understanding of hypertensive heart disease and its clinical implications. Topics covered included signs and symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and epidemiology.

Tone and Balance


 * The tone and balance were professional and well thought out. It included widely used JNC-7 definitions of hypertension. The epidemiology section brought up some factual data about differences in hypertensive heart disease prevalence by sex and ethnicity.

Sources and References


 * They seemed to be from reputable medical journals and national and international medical organizations and were fairly up to date.

Organization and Writing Quality


 * The organization seemed reasonable, however, could be expanded to include other sections and subsections. One idea would be to include causes/mechanism/pathophysiology.

Images and Media


 * One image was included of a blood pressure cuff. I think it could be more impactful to insert a picture of a heart with hypertensive features such as left ventricular hypertrophy to illustrate some of the possible effects on the heart of long term hypertension.

Talk Page Discussion


 * It is not very active overall. Of the few comments, it seems that some of the shortcomings of this page is that many of the details are covered well on the page for hypertension.

Overall Impressions


 * Shortcomings: Room to expand topics, better image choice
 * Improvement opportunites: Included section on causes/mechanisms/pathophysiology and choose impactful image of heart with signs of long term hypertension (e.g. left ventricular hypertrophy).