A chemical stress test uses medications to simulate your heart’s response to exercise. A stress test can assess how well your heart performs during exercise. Your doctor may suggest a stress test if ...

Before a stress test, you’ll need to avoid food, drink, tobacco, and caffeine for a time. You may also have to stop taking some medications. Your doctor will provide information specific to you, but ...

If taking your dog out for a walk or getting up the stairs feels harder than normal, your doctor may order something called a stress test. And the process is a bit different than you might expect. A ...

Stress testing results—no matter the modality used to obtain them—predict prognosis among patients with stable, moderate-to-severe CAD, new data from the ISCHEMIA trial suggest. The study, published ...

Many medical professional liability (MPL) claims following noninvasive stress testing might be avoided through careful review of appropriateness, communication, and urgency of these tests, according ...

This study found that switching from a conventional troponin assay to a high-sensitivity troponin assay resulted in changes to diagnosis patterns and stress testing trends. Objectives: ...