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What does diastolic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Pertaining to a diastole.
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In patients with diastolic dysfunction, the cornerstones of treatment depend on the underlying cause.
This decreases the resting potential of the myocytes of the SA node while increasing the rate of diastolic depolarization.
It relaxes slowly in early diastole and offers greater resistance to filling in late diastole, so that diastolic pressures are elevated.
The technical terms systolic pressure, diastolic pressure, mean arterial pressure, etc are clear enough, but, curiously, what should be most objective numeration is least so.
Dependency of the arm below heart level leads to an overestimation of systolic and diastolic pressures and raising the arm above heart level leads to underestimation.
There were similar reductions in systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure between the two products.

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