You can lower your heart rate with lifestyle changes like regular exercise and stress management. Learn more tips and when to ...

The most common stress tests involve walking on a treadmill or riding a stationary bicycle. While the person exercises, a variety of devices measure and monitor blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen ...

During the test, a medical professional asks you to walk or run on a treadmill or ride a stationary bike. At the same time, they monitor your heart rate, blood pressure, and other vital signs on ...

People whose hearts beat too fast during rest and too sluggishly during exercise have a greater risk than others of dropping dead suddenly from a heart attack, a study suggests. The research ...

High blood pressure, undefined chest pain or suffering a heart attack – among others heart issues – may warrant the need for a stress test. Dr. Thomas Willke, of Indian Springs Family Medicine ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. Channel 3's Lauren Wolfe showed us one way to find out how fit your heart is with a standard exercise stress ...

The first showdown pitting 3-D, heart-imaging exams against older stress tests atop treadmills or stationary bikes found that among 10,003 heart patients, their rates of eventually having serious ...

Because a nontreadmill stress test only involves measuring your body’s responses to stress or heart rate increases, there’s no need to numb your throat before the procedure.

In a study of 7746 French male civil servants the researchers found that men whose heart rate increased the most during mild mental stress just before an exercise test had twice the risk of dying ...