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Could a pulmonary function test cause a heart attack?
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No: A simple pulmonary function test is not an exercise test requiring running or biking. It is just recording breathing volumes during normal breathing and forced expiration.
Answered 5/10/2014
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No: In more than 30 years of pulmonary medicine i've never heard of a heart attack occurring during pulmonary function tests.
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