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A 37-year-old female asked:
My mother didn't feel well last weekend. she just went to the dr. for a stress test and right when she got home she yelled and was nasty had anger?
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Dr. Milton Alvis, jranswered
Preventive Medicine 43 years experience
Beware: Stress Tests: totally miss arterial disease until after advanced & complications (plaque ruptures & resulting scared down clots) have created narrowings (stenoses of typically >75%) BEFORE they are capable of detecting ANY abnormality. Exercise EKG type most sensitive; Nuclear stress much less so (despite promotion, for money, to the contrary). She may have been angry at how treated; this could be appropriate.
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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr commented
Preventive Medicine 43 years experience
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The term "Stress" in stress test simply refers to physical exercise, not emotional or mental stress, unless an individual is highly emotionally/mentally provoked by exercise, any medications used or, more likely, other issues which the person (who consented to having the test performed on their body) found irritating or angering. As I and Dr. Singh both said, the larger issues are other things.
Nov 4, 2016
Dr. Gurmukh Singhanswered
Pathology 51 years experience
Not the stress test: Stress test does not cause "stress" in the usual sense of the term. If you mother was upset, you should ask her why she behaved the way she did. There are likely other issues affecting her attitude.
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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr commented
Preventive Medicine 43 years experience
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Nov 4, 2016
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