Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Disease of your heart muscle where it becomes stretched and thin. This means that its unable to pump blood around your body efficiently
Cardiac
Diastolic Blood Pressure
The lowest blood pressure measured in the arteries. It occurs when the heart muscle is relaxed between beats
Diastolic Dysfunction
Impairment of heart function due to increased stiffness of the left ventricle, which results in reduced capacity of the heart ot fill with blood duing diastole. The clinical effects of this are described as heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HEF-NEF)