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A member asked:
How accurate is a completed cardiac stress test in ruling out heart problems in a person with no personal or family history of heart disease?
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Not very...: It looks like you are trying to predict a cardiac event in someone with a low probability of cardiac disease (a healthy person) the best example i can use is this. Can an eye exam predict a car crash? In people with normal eyes, probably not. But if the people you are all testing have eye problems, that eye test is much more predictive. If probability of heart disease is low, stress test less help.
Answered 1/29/2014
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Stress test...: Stress testing is best used in intermediate risk patients. It sounds like you are low risk. A negative test is accurate in ruling out ischemic heart disease.
Answered 1/29/2014
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