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How does nicotine affect an exercise nuclear stress test? would it cause a false negative or a false positive or neither?

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Nuclear stress: Nicotine could cause a real positive , a false positive and much less likely to cause a false negative.

Answered 4/16/2013

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A member asked:

How does nicotine affect an exercise nuclear stress test? would it cause a false negative or a false positive or neither?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Calvin Weisberger answered

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