blood pressure readings

[emt seeking first job]

(I know I am on person out of 6 Billion.)

Nonetheless, I have HTN, when my blood pressure is high, both numbers go up.

When I asses my patients, sometimes I get high systolic but normal diastolic.

Can each #'s fluctuate up and down interdependently?

Can the diastolic be really high and the systolic low?

Thank you.

 

[Shishkabob]

Yes. In laymens terms, systolic is a mix of how hard the heart pumps along with vessel resistence. Diastolic is essentially just the vessels.


They don't have to correspond.


Like I said...simplified.

 

[MEDIC802]

what Linuss said, Yep

 

[emt seeking first job]

Diastolic is essentially just the vessels.

Thank you.

Is diastolic the resistance of just the vessels then ?