diastolic blood pressure

[MM2007]

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.

[FinNurse]

Depends of the age of the patient too. With a young patient rates like that isn`t what we hope for, but with old it can be normal as well....so, your guestion needs bit more adjustment..Sorry my english, its not my mother language

[GingerSue]

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

[Mommy TeleRN, RN]

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.

[gt4everpn, BSN, RN]

Well, if someone's diastolic(resting) is 118 that indicates HTN, When they say that a drug increases diastolic interval they probably mean that the time between diastoles are increased which means the heart will beat slower, which the b-blockers are for!