Diastolic Blood Pressure
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A Diastolic Blood Pressure is a blood pressure during the diastolic stage.
- Context:
- It can be the minimum between two heart beats.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Kidney Failure, Sphygmomanometer, Human Blood, Blood Vessel, Systemic Circulation, Systole, Diastolic.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_pressure Retrieved:2017-2-27.
- … Blood pressure is usually expressed in terms of the systolic (maximum during one heart beat) pressure over diastolic (minimum in between two heart beats) pressure and is measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg), above the surrounding atmospheric pressure (considered to be zero for convenience).
… Normal resting blood pressure in an adult is approximately 120 mmHg systolic, and 80 mmHg diastolic, abbreviated "120/80 mmHg". …
- … Blood pressure is usually expressed in terms of the systolic (maximum during one heart beat) pressure over diastolic (minimum in between two heart beats) pressure and is measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg), above the surrounding atmospheric pressure (considered to be zero for convenience).