One of the strongest predictors of long-term mortality among patients undergoing a cardiac stress test is the need for a pharmacologic versus treadmill test, new data show. Moreover, although the risk ...

Before a stress test, you’ll need to avoid food, drink, tobacco, and caffeine for a time. You may also have to stop taking some medications. Your doctor will provide information specific to you, but ...

A nuclear stress test helps to assess your risk of a severe cardiac event. Depending on your health, a doctor may ask you to take a treadmill test or a chemical test, which uses medications to ...

Garden-variety exercise stress testing can be used in patients who have angina with nonobstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA) to uncover the presence of coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), new ...

Exercise electrocardiographic (ECG) stress tests appeared to reliably indicate that some patients with angina with nonobstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA) actually had coronary microvascular ...

The treadmill exercise test with electrocardiogram (ECG), also known as an exercise stress test, is one of the most familiar tests in medicine. While exercise testing typically is focused on ...

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), also known as ergospirometry, can be used for early detection of respiratory disorders in overweight and obese individuals. This is the main finding of a study ...