New research published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings has shown that patients who can complete a workout on a treadmill during a cardiac stress test have much lower mortality risk than those ...

According to Merrill H. Stewart, MD, Ochsner Health, the test can more accurately identify high-risk patients while helping others avoid unnecessary invasive procedures. Cardiac positron emission ...

People who can exercise sufficiently on a treadmill during cardiac stress testing have a lower mortality risk regardless of their overall level of heart disease, a Mount Sinai-led team of researchers ...

Doctors who earn money for cardiac stress testing are much more likely to prescribe the tests than those who don't, a new study has found. Researchers at Duke University studied data on 17,847 ...

Cold weather doesn’t just change the landscape outside—it changes what’s happening inside the body too, especially the heart. For men over 55, winter conditions can quietly turn a routine cardiac ...

A new television in the cardiology stress lab at Selkirk Regional Health Centre is helping make cardiac testing a little less stressful for patients.

A nuclear stress test is a diagnostic test that healthcare professionals use to monitor blood flow to your heart before and after exercise. Doctors often order it to look for coronary artery disease ...

There is no incremental clinical benefit from routine surveillance stress testing (vs standard care alone) in high-risk patients with previous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a subgroup ...

A new television in the cardiology stress lab at Selkirk Regional Health Centre is helping make cardiac testing a little less stressful for patients.

Dear Dr. Roach: My 85-year-old mother-in-law had a mild heart attack a few days ago. She didn’t immediately take the nitroglycerin she had on hand. She has a pacemaker, and it reported the event to ...