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.

Exercise Stress Test. Exercise stress tests, sometimes called cardiopulmonary exercise testing, are often used to determine your cardiovascular fitness and detect whether you have any heart ...

Asked how the ability to exercise during a stress test might influence mortality risk several years in the future, Rozanski said, “We know that exercise is that magic pill. When you are being ...

In one survey, 1200 adults between 40 and 60 said they had no history or symptoms of heart disease, but almost half had an ...

Researchers at UT Arlington are using traditional MRI machines with a twist: exercise pants. The NASA-inspired negative ...

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

In other cases, a more limited stress test is done to determine the safety of exercise. This is often done after a heart attack to determine which exercises a person can do as part of cardiac rehab.

Study Objectives: To determine the factors associated with exercise capacity. Design: Retrospective evaluation of large stress-testing database. Setting: Multispecialty tertiary care center ...

The average age of our cohort was 63 ± 11.5 years, including 70% men and 13% African-Americans (53% men). The average BMI was 28.4 ± 4.9 kg/m 2, and the average exercise capacity was 10.6 ± 3.6 ...