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. Is there another way to gather ...

The treadmill exercise test with electrocardiogram (ECG), also known as an exercise stress test, is one of the most familiar tests in medicine. While exercise testing typically is focused on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each year, hundreds of thousands of Americans, including some 700,000 Medicare recipients, get on a treadmill not for exercise but to try to determine if their hearts are healthy. Tim Russert, the NBC ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I just read that the treadmill stress test is no longer recommended. What's the reasoning behind this? I've had the test before, and it seems like a good way to find heart problems.

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 ...

Did you know a patient can have significant heart disease despite a normal stress test? Comedian Brad Upton recently posted on Facebook that he suffered a "significant" heart attack on Memorial Day ...