User:UICOM Student Z/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Essential hypertension

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because essential hypertension has such a high prevalence in the patients that I have seen, but I believe there are meaningful updates that could be made to this article to improve it.

Evaluate the article
Overall, this article provides a good overview of essential hypertension, but there is still room for improvement. This article is rated as Start-class and Mid-importance, although it is assessed as High-importance by the Cardiology Task Force.

Lead Section:

In the introduction, essential hypertension is defined as hypertension without an identifiable cause but does not further define what hypertension itself means. The introduction discusses the prevalence of essential hypertension, but no subsequent section discusses prevalence. The introduction is concise, although perhaps too brief.

Content:

The article's content is relevant to the topic discussed, but the information is not up to date. As previously mentioned, there is a discussion of the prevalence of hypertension, but there is no section on prevalence in the body of the article. It does discuss topics related to historically underrepresented groups.

Tone and Balance:

I have minimal feedback for tone and balance. There appears to be a neutral stance and no evidence of bias.

Sources and References:

This is another area where this article requires modifications. There are facts stated within the article that are followed by "citation needed." Additionally, there are more up-to-date guidelines that would change some definitions and facts expressed within the article.

Organization and Writing Quality:

Several areas within the article would make the article much easier to read with minor revisions. Again, I believe there should be a "Prevalence" section.

Images and Media:

There are only a few images within the article. One of which is a diagram that attempts to explain the pathophysiology of arterial pressure, but a handful of changes could be made to make it more accurate.

Talk Page Discussion:

There is not much recent discussion in the talk page section of this article. The most recent post was in 2020, which recommended that smoking be removed from the article as the commenter reports that it is not related to essential hypertension as stated.