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Diastolic Blood Pressure

Diastolic Blood Pressure is the lower of the two numbers in a blood-pressure reading and represents the pressure in the arteries when the heart relaxes and fills between beats, measured in millimetres of mercury (mmHg). Together with systolic pressure, the higher number recorded when the heart contracts, it provides…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 37× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Diastolic Blood Pressure is the lower of the two numbers in a blood-pressure reading and represents the pressure in the arteries when the heart relaxes and fills between beats, measured in millimetres of mercury (mmHg). Together with systolic pressure, the higher number recorded when the heart contracts, it provides a measure of cardiovascular load. Persistently elevated diastolic pressure is a form of hypertension and is associated with an increased risk of serious complications such as stroke, heart attack, and damage to the heart and blood vessels. Blood Pressure is influenced by factors including age, body weight and central obesity, vascular stiffness, and underlying conditions such as diabetes, and it can be assessed through clinic measurement or ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring. Research examines the determinants and consequences of blood-pressure patterns, the prevalence and management of hypertension, and the structural and functional changes in the heart and arteries that accompany raised pressure. The journal publishes peer-reviewed studies relevant to these themes, including the relationship between systolic and diastolic blood-pressure loads on ambulatory monitoring and body-mass-index percentiles in children, vascular damage assessed by carotid intima-media thickness in young hypertensive patients, cardiac mechanics in hypertension with preserved ejection fraction, hypertension prevalence and awareness, and the clinical profile of hypertensive crisis.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Heart Failure in Family Medicine

Franjić SinišaCorresponding author
Exact topic International Journal of Global Health Cited by 3 doi:10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-20-3411

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 37 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Blood Pressure.

Journal editorial board
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