One of the most common tools: the exercise stress test. It’s a controlled treadmill workout that pushes the heart just enough ...

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 ...

If taking your dog out for a walk or getting up the stairs feels harder than normal, your doctor may order something called a stress test. And the process is a bit different than you might expect. A ...

After age and sex, heart rate and metabolism were best predictors of longevity. — -- Going for a jog on a treadmill can predict how long you’re going to live, a large new study suggests.

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 ...

Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) exhibited significantly greater increases in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure during the cardiopulmonary exercise stress test than healthy control ...