{"version":"1.0","type":"link","title":"Afterload - Newikis","description":"Afterload is the pressure that the heart must work against to eject blood during systole (ventricular contraction). Afterload is proportional to the average arterial pressure. As aortic and pulmonary pressures increase, the afterload increases on the left and right ventricles respectively.…","provider_name":"Newikis","provider_url":"https://newikis.com","cache_age":86400,"thumbnail_url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Heart_systole.svg/1280px-Heart_systole.svg.png","thumbnail_width":1280,"thumbnail_height":1651}