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Two recently published studies offer new information about whether it's helpful for people without symptoms to get an exercise stress test, where the heart is monitored while you walk or run on a treadmill or ride a stationary bicycle. The exercise stress test has not received a unanimous vote as a cardiovascular screening test in healthy people.
The two new studies, however, suggest that the exercise stress test may help determine heart disease risk in people without symptoms or heart disease, as long as they are already considered high risk based on their risk factors. The JAMA study included more than 35,000 men and women between 50 and 75 who did not have symptoms of heart disease. The patients' risk was assessed with either the Framingham Risk Score, which estimates someone's 10-year risk of a heart attack or death from heart disease by weighing risk factors, or the European scoring system, known as SCORE, which uses a different equation than the Framingham Score to calculate risk.
The researchers found that the exercise stress test, if used in conjunction with SCORE or the Framingham Risk Score, may be helpful in determining heart disease risk. So in patients with multiple risk factors, normal results on the exercise stress test might drop them down to intermediate risk while abnormal results might bump them up to very high risk.
Science Daily has a wonderful video on Heart Disease and Women we think all should watch. Take a moment out and watch it as it lends some very good information we all should be aware of.
Science Daily - What every woman should know about heart disease!
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