A stress test is sometimes called a cardiac stress test or an exercise stress test. The Mayo Clinic explains that a stress test “usually involves walking on a treadmill or riding a stationary bike.

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

ANSWER: A stress test and a CT calcium score are both ways of evaluating a person for blockages in the arteries of the heart. The likelihood of having blockages for a man with diabetes at age 81 is ...

[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 ...

Aims Exercise testing remains underused in patients with aortic stenosis (AS), partly due to concerns about an ...

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When ordering a stress test, the clinician has to decide how to stress the heart and how to get information from the heart. In people who can exercise (meaning they don’t have an orthopedic or ...