Pressure-rate-product conducted exercise stress testing. A new protocol for exercise stress testing.

Exercise stress testing in blood pressure evaluation.

The purpose of this study was: (1) to confirm exercise stress testing as a standard in the diagnosis of hypertension, (2) to clarify which measurements during exercise testing are most reliable, and (3) to refine the definition of normal blood pressure response during ergometric exercise testing. Blood pressure response during maximal ergometric exercise testing was observed in 183 persons with...

Clinical exercise stress testing.

Update on exercise stress testing.

Exercise stress testing is an important diagnostic tool for the evaluation of suspected or known cardiac disease. In 2002, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) revised their guidelines for exercise testing. Ten categories from the ACC/ AHA 1997 guidelines were modified: ST heart rate adjustment, unstable angina, older patients, acute coronary syndrom...

Overview of exercise stress testing.

Exercise stress testing is a non-invasive, safe and affordable screening test for coronary artery disease (CAD), provided there is careful patient selection for better predictive value. Patients at moderate risk for CAD are best served with this kind of screening, with the exception of females during their reproductive period, when a high incidence of false positive results has been reported. P...

Systolic Blood Pressure Response During Exercise Stress Testing: The Henry Ford ExercIse Testing (FIT) Project

BACKGROUND The prognostic significance of modest elevations in exercise systolic blood pressure response has not been extensively examined. METHODS AND RESULTS We examined the association between systolic blood pressure response and all-cause death and incident myocardial infarction (MI) in 44 089 (mean age 53±13 years, 45% female, 26% black) patients who underwent exercise treadmill stress t...