Both numbers are essential for understanding your heart health. Is blood pressure higher during systole or diastole? Blood pressure is higher during systole when the heart squeezes and pushes ...

Virtual women’s heart health company Systole raised a $2 million pre-seed round, led by Benchstrength. January Ventures, J Ventures and Tom X. Lee, founder of One Medical, also contributed to ...

Diastole and systole refer to when the heart muscles relax and contract. The balance between diastolic and systolic pressure determines a person’s blood pressure. A blood pressure reading ...

In response to emailed questions, Systole Health CEO and Co-founder Dr. Simin Gharib Lee talked about how her company is addressing this medical need. I started Systole because I kept seeing the ...

In summary, HHD with heart failure is simply not a dysfunction of systole or diastole alone but to some extent involves both. In addition, other peripheral factors including heart rate ...

A murmur is due to turbulence of blood flow and can, at times, encompass all of systole or diastole. The main normal heart sounds are the S1 and the S2 heart sound. The S3 can be normal ...

End-diastolic volume refers to the quantity of blood in the left or right ventricle at the end of diastole, just before systole starts. The heart consists of four chambers: two atria and two ...

Systole is normally the highest pressure point generated. The aortic valve opens, rapid ejection occurs, and the ventricle delivers 66%-75% of its stroke volume. [1] Thereafter, flow velocity ...

1–4 Recently, we had the opportunity to study a patient who exhibited bilateral diaphragmatic contractions synchronous with cardiac systole, and since this condition has apparently not been ...

Aortic stenosis occurs when the orifice of the aortic valve is significantly reduced due to the failure of the aortic valve leaflets to open fully during systole. This causes an effective increase ...