Dear Mayo Clinic: I have a treadmill stress test scheduled to look for heart disease. I know this involves exercising, and I'm worried that I'm not physically up to it.

The response of blood pressure during exercise stress testing is an important evaluation parameter when such testing is used as a clinical diagnostic modality.

There’s another way to conduct a heart stress test that doesn’t involve exercise. Several drugs can be safely used to mimic the effects of exercise or stress on the heart. This is known as a ...

Dobutamine or adenosine stress test: This is for people unable to exercise. You’ll take a drug to make the heart respond as if you were exercising . This way, the doctor can still determine if ...

Sydó, N., et al. (2023). Exercise Test Predicts Both Noncardiovascular and Cardiovascular Death in a Primary Prevention Population. Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

In a stress test — also known as an exercise or treadmill test — a doctor monitors a person’s heart rate as they exercise or undergo a chemical stressor. It can show how well a person’s ...

Metabolic exercise stress test is a sophisticated test that measures cardiac reserve and is of great importance in evaluating patients with a failing heart. This test is very similar to a ...

A stress test, also known as an exercise stress test or treadmill test, is a diagnostic procedure to evaluate the heart’s function under stress, typically during exercise.

As for whether the reports of stress test results should change, Bullock-Palmer pointed out that they already include information on whether patients were able to exercise. “But what you could add is ...

A recent study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings has shown that the results of the exercise stress test, a common test that uses a treadmill and electrocardiogram to measure fitness, can predict ...

Sep. 6, 2023 — The treadmill exercise test with electrocardiogram (ECG), also known as an exercise stress test, is one of the most familiar tests in medicine.

In a 1-year open protocol, 195 normotensive subjects, with hyperactivity to treadmill stress test and LVH, were randomly assigned to supervised physical exercise, rilmenidine 1 mg day −1 ...