A nuclear stress test helps to assess your risk of a severe cardiac event. Depending on your health, a doctor may ask you to take a treadmill test or a chemical test, which uses medications to ...

Graded aerobic treadmill testing is safe, tolerable, and useful in evaluating and managing cases of sports-related concussion in children and adolescents. This is the ...

The WISE investigators found that the DASI could easily and economically identify at-risk symptomatic women. The DASI may be particularly helpful, they noted, as a pretest risk assessment tool for the ...

“The treadmill test detects flow-limiting obstruction in the arteries,” he said, adding that this usually reflects a later stage of disease. He pointed out what the test misses. It does not detect ...

A chemical stress test uses medications to simulate your heart’s response to exercise. A stress test can assess how well your heart performs during exercise. Your doctor may suggest a stress test if ...

Dr. Blumenthal: I'm Roger Blumenthal, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, and with me is my friend and colleague, Dr. Jennifer Mieres, an assistant professor at New York University School of ...