Talk:Hypertension
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To merit "good article" status, needs to address dipping vs. non-dipping somehow
dipping vs. non-dipping might be addressed at least in part by a sentence citing this section:
NCBI Conclusion on Hypertension
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Diagnosis tables could show diagram
EG as - if we can find some with suitable use licences. Sadly none of the diagrams used by the national health systems mark the zero pulse pressure line (of a dead patient) or the acknowledge the impossibility of the diastolic pressure being greater than the systolic. - Rod57 (talk) 16:47, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
- None in commons.mediawiki, and google find none with a creative commons licence.
If one of us made a diagram (png or svg) from the clinical guidelines, could we upload and use that ? - Rod57 (talk) 17:07, 2 September 2025 (UTC) - Bing offers more search options on licences - but seems to show non free ones.
Would be great to have something like this Adobe image . - Rod57 (talk) 17:23, 2 September 2025 (UTC) - Gemini 2.5 finds of the European guidelines for children. (Which does mark the impossible region.) - Rod57 (talk) 18:36, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
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