Talk:Blood pressure/GA1

GA Reassessment

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1. This article contains large sections of unreferenced text.
2. The classification section needs to be expanded.
3. Many of these sections inter lap with hypertension. Would be best to split them off summarize them here and than link that sub page to both article using the main template.

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:37, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

1. This in the lead in not exactly true "The mean BP decreases as the circulating blood moves away from the heart through arteries, has its greatest decrease in the small arteries and arterioles, and continues to decrease as the blood moves through the capillaries and back to the heart through veins" We have valves in the lower half of the body added by a muscle pumps and gravity in the upper half. Thus at many times the venous system may in fact have a greater pressure than the capillaries.
2. The lead does not do a sufficient job of summarizing the article.
3. Patient is used instead of person
4. Could use some graphs showing how mortality / CVD changes with BP
5. Children are mentioned but the normal ranges are not give

For these reasons and others I have delisted this article. Please reapply once corrections are made.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:17, 23 December 2009 (UTC)