Sentences with phrase «as diastolic»

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Today, there is available medical evidence that shows how a pillow for pregnant stomach sleepers can help improve breathing, and also reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and help with respiration, as well as other health benefits.

Articles were included if they fulfilled the following criteria: 1) having been breastfed in infancy was compared with bottle (artificial) feeding, 2) systolic or diastolic blood pressure had been measured as an outcome, and 3) an estimate of the mean difference in blood pressure between breast - and bottle - fed groups could be extracted from the article.

Furthermore, ERβ - deficient mice develop sustained systolic and diastolic hypertension as they age.

Women who never gave birth were found to be at an increased risk for diastolic heart failure, a type of heart failure where the left side of the heart does not relax as well as it should.

«We are trying to shape the view of diastolic dysfunction to include flow patterns as a mechanism that modulates the chamber's resistance to filling — in addition to the wall's own stiffness,» said del Alamo.

«Using exposure to nitrogen dioxide as a surrogate for exposure to traffic - related air pollution, we were able to demonstrate for the first time that higher levels of exposure were associated with greater right ventricular mass and larger right ventricular end - diastolic volume.

Orthostatic hypotension was defined as a drop of 20 mmHg or more in systolic blood pressure or 10 mmHg or more in diastolic blood pressure.

Those who took part in the SAGE survey were categorized as hypertensive if the mean of two measurements was equal or greater than 140mmHg (systolic blood pressure) or 90mmHg (diastolic blood pressure), or if they were taking treatment for hypertension.

Diastolic heart failure patients have not been as well studied as patients with systolic heart failure.

A new study by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) found comparable long - term outcomes between congestive heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction commonly known as «diastolic heart failure» and congestive heart failure with reduced ejection fraction also known as «systolic heart failure.»

In addition, the number of people who will develop diastolic heart failure is expected to rise as the population ages and the incidence of obesity and hypertension increases.

-- The use of this extract (providing 140 mg of chlorogenic acid per day) in men with high blood pressure leads to a decrease in heart rate (8 %), a decrease in systolic blood pressure (8 %), as well as a decrease in diastolic blood pressure (7 %).

High blood pressure is defined as a systolic pressure of 130 or above, or a diastolic pressure of 80 or above.

As shown in the blue section of the chart, blood pressure ranges are typically shown with the systolic number before or above the diastolic pressure, e.g. 120/80 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury).

Despite the modest reduction in blood pressure, it could be significant as even a 2 mmHg diastolic blood pressure decrease has the potential to reduce coronary heart disease risk by 6 % and transient ischaemic attack and stroke risk by 15 %.

The diastolic pressure is the resting pressure, between heartbeats as the pressure goes down ahead of the next heart pumping action.

The diastolic pressure, 80 as illustrated in the blood pressure chart, is the resting pressure, which is between beats when the pressure decreases before the next heart pumping action.

The systolic level is the highest your blood pressure reaches when your heart beats, and the diastolic is the lowest it reaches as your heart relaxes.

The diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) represents the pressure in the arteries as the muscle of the heart relaxes after it contracts.

A person's blood pressure is expressed as systolic / diastolic blood pressure, for example, 120/80.

The female group, however, respond positively to the camu camu extract only in four of the ten participants, with lower blood pressure rates in general, as well as discrepancies between systolic and diastolic pressure.

Trace minerals are also important as co-factors for many metabolic processes in the body including those that help regulate diastolic and systolic blood pressure.

As a bonus benefit, systolic, diastolic and mean blood pressure all fell significantly.

Everybody knows the importance of garlic in cardiovascular system as it effectively works in reducing diastolic and systolic blood pressure.

In addition to decreasing blood cholesterol concentrations, guar gum has also been shown to decrease concentrations of triacylglycerols (Bosello et al., 1984), as well as systolic and diastolic blood pressure (Krotkiewski, 1987).

[25] Wind turbine noise ``... annoyance was found to be statistically related to several self - reporting health effects including, but not limited to, blood pressure, migraines, tinnitus, dizziness, scores on the PSQI, and perceived stress» as well as related to «measured hair cortisol, systolic and diastolic blood pressure.»

We examined five measures of ANS function, including three global measures [heart rate (HR) and systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP)-RSB-, one measure of parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) function [respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA)-RSB-, and one measure of SNS function [preejection period (PEP)-RSB-, as well as two markers of HPA axis function [cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone - sulfate (DHEA - S)-RSB-.