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Exercise stress test
Recording an ekg while walking up a steeper & steeper incline, at a faster & faster rate, so as to increase heart contraction intensity & rate of contraction, thus blood flow needed by the heart muscle. However, atherosclerosis does not narrow arteries, clots do, & the ekg only detects major qualitative differences in capillary blood flow. Thus only severe artery disease narrowing is ever detected.
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What's the purpose of the exercise stress test?
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What is tested for during an exercise stress test?
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How much approx does the exercise stress test cost?
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How much does the exercise stress test cost and should I do that instead of annual exam?
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A 42-year old female asked:
After an exercise stress test when they say that further evaluation is needed, what does it mean? Do I need further tests? Is it necessary?
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What is the difference between Cardiopulmonary exercise test vs Exercise stress test? Does Cardiopulmonary exercise test combines both and better?
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Im 19 and received abnormal exercise stress test results. Is there anything that could have affected the test which may have caused the abnormal results?
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Internists interpret exercise stress test.?
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Can I drink gatorade before an exercise stress test?
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Does an exercise stress test have to be preformed by the bruce protocol to at least 8 mets ?
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A 66-year old male asked:
Would heart scarring show up on an exercise stress test?
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A 48-year old female asked:
Does a normal exercise stress test mean there are no blockages and no coronary diseases? What percentage of blockage does it detect?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Could I have Peripheral arterial disease at 21 no family history? I have pain in my legs and arms for 2 years now. Goes away with exercise, affects me the most at rest. Dizzy during exercise (stress test says its not my heart?
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A 47-year old asked:
Exercise stress test and an echo both needed to exclude heart problem at 60?
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A member asked:
Does medicare cover all of the expenses for the nuclear exercise stress test if referred by my doctor?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Which ecg lead picks up myocardial ischemia best on an exercise stress test?
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A 39-year old asked:
Exercise stress test, 24 hour holter monitor, echo doppler test--which is done first?
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A 57-year old female asked:
My stress test results read " positive exercise stress test for ischemia by EKG criteria. What does that mean?
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A 35-year old asked:
What type of doctors perform pulmonary function tests/exercise stress test/cardio-pulmonary stress tests?
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A 20-year old male asked:
In exercise stress test my sons doctor wrote:"optimal heart rate achieved for nuclear imaging", but my son had regular exercise stress test without nuclear imaging.What does it mean?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Age21, male. Get chest pain that goes when sitting down after lifting weights / running. Had ecg, 24h holter, exercise stress test, echo. All normal?
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A 36-year old female asked:
Had EKG q and t wave abnormality.I saw a cardiologist who did an echocardiogram, a 24 halter moniter and an exercise stress test, all normal.Two more EKG had same abnormality. He said i was ok ?
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A 36-year old asked:
Is an exercise stress test safe if I have coronary artery disease?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Pounding heartbeat very irritating. Cardiac exercise stress test no images and 48 hour holter monitor normal. Not anxiety can't fall asleep or woken?
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A 19-year old male asked:
Does normal Troponin blood level, chest X-Ray, EKG & cardiac exercise stress test rule out any cardiovascular cause for my chest pain?
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A 26-year old male asked:
If I had a double contrast CT scan of the chest and two chest x rays combine with an exercise stress test would this have showed cystic or pulmonary fibrosis? Would it have showed up on either scan?
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A 42-year old female asked:
Husband is 42 mitral valve regurgitation, no symptoms, (echo) Normal exercise stress test and ekg. The doctor said leak is severe but everything else ok. He is now taking losartan to lessen the force of blood on the veins. Can he have sudden death??
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If i'm too weak to do the exercise nuclear stress test next week will they do the injection kind? I'm worried I won't be able to. Havent been eating.
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A 46-year old male asked:
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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A 61-year old male asked:
Does a stress MRI or stress PET provide the same diagnostic information as a resting/exercise nuclear stress test (MIBI). Ive had many scans and am looking for alternatives to reduce exposure. Thank you?
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