Often used when discussing heart conditions or measuring blood pressure in a medical setting.

Medical Condition

A specialized term used by healthcare professionals, less likely in casual conversation.

Technical Term

When paired with a number, refers to the higher value in a blood pressure reading.

Numerical Value

 has bounced back to normal. So there's two main things that we are evaluating with that echo. One is your systolic function which is the squeezing function. And that was the one that was mildly reduced last time you were here. That actually does not look significantly different.

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 That force is called blood pressure, and it rises and falls with the phases of the heartbeat. It's highest during systole, when the heart contracts to force blood through the arteries. This is your systolic blood pressure. When the heart is at rest between beats,

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 but not always accurately. And so had we had some information about our heart health to share with him, maybe we would have gotten a better diagnosis the first time. I want you to consider the following chart, of systolic blood pressure measurements

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 like increasing diagnostic capability so if you look at something simple like our fate systolic blood pressure and you put them together you could get something called a shock index which is a sensitive clinical indicator to help

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