systolic
- a of or relating to a systole or happening during a systole
- Kids watching from 90 to 330 minutes of television each day had systolic and diastolic blood-pressure readings (the two numbers that indicate pressure caused by blood pumping from .
- In Lauderdale's analysis, one additional hour of sleep was equivalent to lowering systolic blood pressure by 16.
- Hypertension defined as having systolic blood pressure of 140 mmHg or diastolic pressure 90 mmHg, or higher is known to increase risk of stroke and heart attack.