Blood pressure is measured in two numbers: systolic and diastolic. The top number is the systolic blood pressure, which measures the pressure caused by the heart contracting and squeezing out blood.

So the graphs on this page show the upper half of the blood pressure range found in children. Normal BP is defined as systolic and diastolic blood pressures that are below the 90th percentile. The ...

About half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure, a major risk for heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, even dementia.

Diastolic dysfunction occurs when the left ventricular myocardium is non-compliant and not able to accept blood return in a ... reduce the left atrial pressure relieving symptoms of heart failure ...

diabetes and increased body mass index are risk factors for diastolic heart failure. Hemodynamic consequences such as increased pulmonary venous pressure, post-capillary pulmonary hypertension ...

As aortic regurgitation worsens in severity, the pressure between ... contracts and forces more blood through the stenosed mitral valve, creating a late diastolic crescendo murmur.

So the graphs on this page show the upper half of the blood pressure range found in children. Normal BP is defined as systolic and diastolic blood pressures that are below the 90th percentile. The ...