The exercise treadmill test: Estimating cardiovascular prognosis

  • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • June 2008,
  • 75
  • (6)
  • 424-430;

ABSTRACT

Abnormal hemodynamic responses to exercise treadmill testing may indicate an increased risk of coronary events and death, even if evidence of ischemia is absent. Exercise duration and the blood pressure, heart rate, and heart rhythm responses to exercise have prognostic significance.

Footnotes

  • * Dr. Miller has disclosed that he has financial relationships with the Bristol Myers Squibb, KAI Pharmaceuticals, King Pharmaceuticals, Radiant Medical, TargeGen, and TherOx corporations.

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