Systolic blood pressure is tightly linked to adverse cardiovascular outcomes, but that doesn’t mean diastolic measurements aren’t important. That’s the message from a new study showing that among more ...

End-diastolic volume is the amount of blood that is in the ventricles before the heart contracts. Doctors use end-diastolic volume to estimate the heart’s preload volume and to calculate stroke volume ...

Because life expectancy and the prevalence of risk factors such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes are rising globally, heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. Impairment of left ...

High diastolic blood pressure is a type of hypertension. Doctors do not know precisely why it happens, but obesity, high triglyceride levels, smoking, and alcohol may contribute. Doctors describe ...

Systolic pressure is the force of blood against artery walls when the heart contracts, while diastolic pressure reflects the force when the heart relaxes and refills. Both systolic and diastolic blood ...