The exercise stress test-- also known as an exercise electrocardiogram, treadmill test, graded exercise test, or stress EKG-- is used most often. It lets your doctor know how your heart responds ...

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 ...

Pharmacologic stress test: This test is used for people who can’t exercise. They take a drug such as adenosine, dipyridamole, or dobutamine to make their heart respond as if they were exercising.

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 ...

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

A stress test typically involves walking on a treadmill or using a stationary cycle while medical devices monitor breathing, blood pressure, heart rate, and heart rhythm.

In a stress echocardiogram test, we will get ultrasound images while the patient is at rest, and then when we get them up to that target heart rate, (on the treadmill) the technician would then ...

A stress test, also known as an exercise stress test or treadmill test, is a diagnostic procedure to evaluate the heart’s function under stress, typically during exercise.

In the Mayo study, researchers tracked 13,382 men and women from Minnesota who took a 10–15-minute treadmill stress test between the years 1993 and 2010.