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diastolic blood pressure is the residual pressure of the arterial system during ventricular relaxation.
cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance are the two main factors influencing BP
stage 2 hypertension is when systolic BP is > or equal to 160 or when
diastolic is > or equal to 100
I am still trying to understand it myself... but as gingersue said it has to do with the pressure in the arterial system and some training info I was reading the other day correlated the diastolic bp with afterload. I had a pt with a high diastolic last week in clinical and they weren't really sure what her dx was (she had ongoing problems and was only in her 30s) but they thought it was a kidney problem which makes sense.
MM2007
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hello, just a quxik question, if someone has a diastolic pressure of 118, what is this indicating, sorry this have never really been discussed. i know diastolic pressure is when the heart relaxes. and i was reading a pharmaceutrical article the other day and it said that beta blockers increase diastolic interval, prompting me to ask this question.
thnaks.