Before a stress test, you’ll need to avoid food, drink, tobacco, and caffeine for a time. You may also have to stop taking some medications. Your doctor will provide information specific to you, but ...

A stress test can help doctors diagnose certain heart conditions, but it’s a good idea to consider ages when deciding who might undergo this exercise-based screening. Share on Pinterest FG Trade/Getty ...

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 ...

The Federal Reserve is open to changing its stress-testing practices in hopes of heading off potential future legal challenges. On Monday, the Fed said it would ask the public for input next year 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 ...

Stress testing results—no matter the modality used to obtain them—predict prognosis among patients with stable, moderate-to-severe CAD, new data from the ISCHEMIA trial suggest. The study, published ...