A stress test and a calcium score test are complimentary tests. The stress test looks for changes in blood flow to the heart at rest and during exercise, which indicates a high likelihood of a ...

A stress test and a CT calcium score are both ways of evaluating a person for blockages in the arteries of the heart.

Stress testing may be done for several reasons, but the most common is to determine whether there are blockages in the ...

The average woman who comes to your office should be able to at least complete 7 METs or two stages ... heart disease. For the woman who needs a nuclear stress test and she is incapable of ...

[4,5,8,9,10,11] However, little is known about the prognostic value of exercise capacity for nonfatal cardiac events. Our aim was to determine the prognostic importance of exercise capacity for ...

If more information is needed, your doctor may request a cardiac “stress test.” Also called an exercise stress echocardiogram ...

heart attack-- they are the signposts of heart troubles. In the past, such symptoms might mean a treadmill stress test or a cardiac catheterization to diagnose the problem. That's changing with ...

I had a comment about your recent column on nuclear stress tests. As an 87-year-old person who has experienced atrial ...

To get me there, I was injected with something (the name escapes me) that is supposed to achieve the same result as the final stage ... stress test can diagnose heart disease. In this case, the ...