User talk:Adh30/Archive 1

History of hypertension
I saw that you merged the historical content from benign hypertension into the main article. I have taken some time to sort out the references, most of which have digital identifiers and have been templated. I have added a further very recent high-quality secondary source (10.1161/​HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.177766, by Kotchen). Hope it's all okay. JFW &#124; T@lk  23:07, 29 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks, looks good. Do you use a program to enter the reference template? I will have to get my head around the referencing. adh (talk) 13:07, 30 December 2011 (UTC)


 * There is a wicked little piece of web-based software written by a chap called David Iberri. The URL is http://diberri.crabdance.com/cgi-bin/templatefiller/index.cgi ; it requires you to know the PMID number of the article on PubMed, or the ISBN in case of a book. It fetches the relevant data from online databases and stuffs it in a template for you. Sometimes I just populate the templates by hand, but I agree it looks (and is) a bit tedious. The advantage is that references look reasonably homogenous this way.

Talk:Hypertension/GA3
Hello Adh30, I just reviewed Hypertension, an article which you nominated for GA a while ago. The article has a little bit of work that needs to be done for this article to be listed as a GA. You may read my comments on the review talk page. Regards,--12george1 (talk) 14:10, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for this. I have responded on the review talk page. Regards, Adh (talk) 11:14, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Excellent having you here and welcome to Wikipedia. -- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:25, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Diabetes mellitus type 2
Have attempted to address your concerns and renominated for WP:GA. Cheers -- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:42, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

New medical organization
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Thanks, Adh30, for links to BHSOC.org & eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org
Thanks, Adh30, for posting that link to BHSOC.org, The British Hypertension Society. Much helpful info at that page, especially the videos on how to interpret the korotkoff sounds while reading a mercury spyhmomanometer. And I found the European Society of Hypertension recommendations, at http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/12/1462

However, some other issues are not addressed, such as when and how to verify the calibration of a patient’s consumer grade blood pressure device, that is used at home. I find that all consumer grade devices measure inaccurately when new, giving readings that are 5% to 15% too high. And, as the devices age, they drift either up or down. (I know this is true, by comparing with a mercury sphygmomanometer, tee'd into the air line, and a good stethoscope.) IMHO, that is unsatisfactory for the tight tolerance band on acceptable blood pressure. Yet, no one wants to recognize this situation. For example, here in the USA, MDs refuse to let me take a comparison measurement with my sphygmomanometer, right after measurement on their automated machines. Not a comfortable situation.

Thanks for your help. 68.35.173.107 (talk) 22:28, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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Extended confirmed protection policy RfC
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Help with article?
Hi,

I noticed you were a member of the Cardiology task force. I am an experienced Wikipedia editor and have written a new article about a biomedical engineering firm called Alivecor. Draft:BC1278/sandbox/Alivecor They make the first FDA and EU approved medical device for the Apple watch, combining an ECG and artificial intelligence to spot early signs of atrial fibrillation and sinus rhythm abnormalities. The Mayo Clinic is a major investor in the company.

Even though I'm an experienced Wikipedia editor, as a paid consultant to Alivecor, under Wikipedia Conflict of Interest policies WP: COI, I must have an independent editor review all my work and then decide whether to bring it live. I follow not only this policy but all Wikipedia policies as strictly as I can manage.

I wonder if you might have time to review the article? I'm available to make revisions, as requested. Then when it's ready to publish, you'd move it from Draft:BC1278/sandbox/Alivecor to Article: Alivecor

Thanks for considering this request,

Ed BC1278 (talk) 18:54, 8 April 2018 (UTC)BC1278

Filled in citations
Completed the citations and left a note for you at Draft_talk:BC1278/sandbox/Alivecor

Many thanks,

Ed

Oops -- Alivecor Move issue
Hi Adh,

It looks like when you moved Alivecor, you were inadvertently on the Talk page and the Talk page was moved as the Main Space article (but without the Main Space article.)

Another editor returned the Talk page to Draft: Alivecor (as though the Talk was the article.) Luckily, there was still a copy of the article in the my user sandbox. So I pasted it into the article space for Draft: Alivecor, and move the Talk page back to the Talk space.

Would you mind moving the draft back to Main Space again for Alivecor? Just be sure you're on the article page and not the Talk page. The Talk page will be pre-seleced to move automatically if you move the article.

Thanks for all your help with this and the article.

Ed BC1278 (talk) 18:29, 14 April 2018 (UTC)BC1278