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 ...

The heart has four chambers and valves: Heart sounds are broken down into two categories: systolic (related to systole, the contraction of the ventricles to pump blood out of the heart ...

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 ...

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 ...

The timing of a murmur is crucial to accurate diagnosis. A murmur is either systolic, diastolic or continuous throughout systole and diastole. Remember that systole occurs between the S1 and S2 ...