A stress test is sometimes called a cardiac stress test or an exercise stress test. The Mayo Clinic explains that a stress test “usually involves walking on a treadmill or riding a stationary bike.

A stress test measures how well your heart works when it is made to work harder, such as during exercise. It is commonly used to detect coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, and other heart ...

NEW YORK, July 19 (Praxis Press) Physical activity benefits older persons but current guidelines for exercise stress-testing may not apply to the majority of persons aged 75 years or older. Gill and ...

If you’ve scrolled through social media lately, you may have seen some chatter about cortisol—a stress hormone—and its ...

Should we all be concerned about our cortisol levels? I took a blood stress test and spoke with experts to find out.

Don't let it be free floating stress. For a lot of people, including myself, that strategy is regular exercise. If you as regular exercisers, why do you exercise, 75% of regular exercisers myself ...

The average BMI was 28.4 ± 4.9 kg/m 2, and the average exercise capacity was 10.6 ± 3.6 estimated METs. Only 3% of patients had ECG evidence of left ventricular hypertrophy, and 11% of patients ...

When ordering a stress test, the clinician has to decide how to stress the heart and how to get information from the heart. In people who can exercise (meaning they don’t have an orthopedic or ...