diastolic
Americanadjective
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pertaining to or produced by diastole.
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(of blood pressure) indicating the arterial pressure during the interval between heartbeats.
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Research reviews show caffeine from coffee, cola, energy drinks, and chocolate can raise systolic blood pressure by 3-15 and diastolic blood pressure by 4-13 after consumption.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
In this study, the patch was tested on 36 healthy volunteers for its ability to measure blood flow velocities -- peak systolic, mean flow and end diastolic velocities -- in the brain's major arteries.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
For example, systolic blood pressure, or blood pressure during heartbeats, decreased more than 8 millimeters of mercury, or mm Hg, while diastolic blood pressure, or blood pressure between heartbeats, decreased nearly 5 mm Hg.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2023
The lower number is pressure between beats and known as diastolic blood pressure.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023
The diastolic does not fall to the same extent as the systolic so that there is a pulse pressure smaller than normal.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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