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What is a stress test for heart?
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They start with : Treadmills to push your exercise tolerance and aim at a target heart rate and your tolerance of the exercise. There are echo and nuclear medicine variations to look at functional and vascular aspects and determine the need for more invasive test or not.
Answered 2/8/2017
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Angina. : A stress test should help in determining if chest pain is due to a blockage in an artery within the heart.
Answered 11/28/2017
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