Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Systolic and diastolic hypertension independently affected the risk for adverse CV events, including MI, ...

Isolated diastolic hypertension is now more prevalent, owing to the definition of hypertension used in the most recent US blood pressure guidelines, but the condition does not appear to be associated ...

Diastolic heart failure is defined clinically when signs and symptoms of heart failure are present in the presence of preserved left ventricular systolic function (ejection fraction >45%). The ...

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Systolic blood pressure is tightly linked to adverse cardiovascular outcomes, but that doesn’t mean diastolic measurements aren’t important. That’s the message from a new study showing that among more ...