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Why does your diastolic pressure sometimes lower after exercise?
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Vaso-dilation: Because of peripheral vaso-dilation.
Answered 11/26/2013
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Vasodilitation : Diastolic BP reflects the physiology of the vascular bed - blood vessels. Exercise opens up large vascular beds in the muscles used and effectively lowers system vascular resistance temporarily - thus causing diastolic pressure to fall: it's normal!
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