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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The trial found that tirzepatide offered substantial benefits for managing diastolic heart failure, reducing deaths, preventing hospitalizations and generally benefiting recipients' health and quality of life.
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024
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
It is well to emphasize again the point that the blood pressure picture consists of the systolic, the diastolic, the pulse pressure and the pulse rate.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
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