At the hospital, 46-year-old Stephen Coffey underwent one of the most common tests for heart disease — a treadmill stress test. Used worldwide for half a century, the stress test is performed millions ...
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 ...
One of the strongest predictors of long-term mortality among patients undergoing a cardiac stress test is the need for a pharmacologic versus treadmill test, new data show. Moreover, although the risk ...