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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Male mice with normal levels of the Olfr558 receptor typically had diastolic and systolic blood pressure 10 points higher than female mice.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Systolic blood pressure, or the top number in the blood pressure reading, is a stronger predictor for cardiovascular death than diastolic, or bottom number, blood pressure.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 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
After the heart has rallied and the circulation is reestablished, then a careful determination of the diastolic pressure can be made and the prognosis will rest on what is found at the compensated stage.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
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