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Hypertension has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
July 22, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
December 23, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted
March 10, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed

Current status: Good article

This article was nominated for deletion on 14 January 2017. The result of the discussion was speedy keep.

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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:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory_blood_pressure#Overnight_reduction_or_surge_in_blood_pressure

NCBI Conclusion on Hypertension

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4137642

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To merit "good article" status, needs to address dipping vs. non-dipping somehow

NCBI Conclusion on Hypertension

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