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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

I am an 81-year-old man (5 feet, 2 inches tall at 122 pounds) in good health, except that I have Type 2 diabetes. My A1C level has been in the range of 6.3% to 6.8% for the past five years with the ...

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If more information is needed, your doctor may request a cardiac “stress test.” Also called an exercise stress echocardiogram, the stress test is designed to monitor the heart’s response to ...