Again, the Framingham group has provided another surprise to the medical community with publication of its longitudinal follow-up study of persons over 50 years of age that has linked cardiovascular (and in particular coronary) mortality with pulse pressure.1 In this study, mortality was related independently with initial systolic, diastolic, and pulse pressure, but the strongest association wa...

BACKGROUND The oscillometric method of measuring blood pressure with an automated cuff yields valid estimates of mean pressure but questionable estimates of systolic and diastolic pressures. Existing algorithms are sensitive to differences in pulse pressure and artery stiffness. Some are closely guarded trade secrets. Accurate extraction of systolic and diastolic pressures from the envelope of ...

To clarify the basis of increased left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic pressure associated with isometric exercise, LV diastolic and systolic function were examined in 25 patients during sustained handgrip. During handgrip, average systemic arterial mean pressure increased by 20 mm Hg, and LV systolic pressure rose by 31 mm Hg, though in five patients, no increase in mean arterial or LV systolic...

Relationships between initial anthropometric variables and subsequent diastolic blood pressure (fourth phase) were examined in children identified as being in the upper quintile for diastolic blood pressure at Year 1. Of 156 white children, aged 10 to 14 years, with diastolic blood pressure levels in the upper age-race-sex-specific quintile at Year 1, 38% remained in the upper quintile at Year ...

Relationships between initial anthropometric variables and subsequent diastolic blood pressure (fourth phase) were examined in children identified as being in the upper quintile for diastolic blood pressure at Year 1. Of 156 white children, aged 10 to 14 years, with diastolic blood pressure levels in the upper age-race-sex-specific quintile at Year 1, 38% remained in the upper quintile at Year ...

The increased left ventricular end-diastolic pressure associated with myocardial ischemia was studied in 19 patients at cardiac catheterization. Single plane left ventriculograms were performed using high fedelity micromanometer tipped catheters before and immediately following rapid atrial pacing. Left ventricular diastolic properties were evaluated by constructing diastolic pressure-volume cu...

This study aimed to examine the long-term effect of high blood pressure (systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, and mean arterial pressure) on white matter lesions and to study changes in different blood pressure components in relation to white matter lesions. A representative population of women was examined in 1968 and re-examined in 1974, 1980, 1992, and 2000. The...

Until the 1970s, the left ventricle was considered an isolated shell in which the left ventricular diastolic pressure-volume relation depended on the myocardium's material properties and the left ventricle's wall thickness and geometry. According to this view, the relation between diastolic pressure and volume could change only in response to chronic changes in the cardiac muscle's material pro...

Until the 1970s, the left ventricle was considered an isolated shell in which the left ventricular diastolic pressure-volume relation depended on the myocardium's material properties and the left ventricle's wall thickness and geometry. According to this view, the relation between diastolic pressure and volume could change only in response to chronic changes in the cardiac muscle's material pro...

conclusions small-group education in patients undergoing hemodialysis leads to a decrease in interdialytic weight gain, and systolic blood pressure, but has no effect on diastolic blood pressure. results the mean, and standard deviation of interdialytic weight gain of participants was 3.64 ± 0.88 kg, before the education, and significantly decreased to 1.34 ± 0.61 kg, and 1.71 ± 0.72 kg one wee...