What do the results of heart stress tests mean?

Answer by  tjs0209 (32)

Stress tests determine if there is any cardiac ischemia. It also can determine what your ejection fraction is, or overall functioning of the heart. When people complain of chest pain, a lot of times your doctor will proceed with a stress test and based on those results determine if coronary angiogram is needed or not.

Answer by  starmlw (960)

If the stress test is normal (or negative), you do not have significant blockage in the blood vessels of your heart that would damage your heart and cause a heart attack. Abnormal (positive) stress test usually means you have signs or symptoms of heart attack during the test (chest pain, ekg changes) and need other tests.

Answer by  G12345 (1808)

It is a way of searching for occult coronary artery disease. It is not diagnositic but helps your doctor to risk stratify you and decide on further invasive tests.

Answer by  starmlw (960)

An abnormal stress test means there may be heart disease which could damage the heart. Usually after an abnormal stress you will have a cardiac cath to check the heart.

Answer by  Tigerbelle (252)

The stress test is designed to help your doctor determine arterial blood flow to the heart during physical exercise. The results indicate the degree of the persons physical fitness.

Answer by  selva (22)

The test reflects variances of blood flow .the steps are as follows The patient either walks on a treadmill or is given an intravenous (IV) medication that simulates exercise simulataneously while connected to an electrocardiogram (ECG) machine.

Answer by  Elis (150)

A stress test measures how well your heart responds to increasing amounts of work. They attempt to use the results to judge whether you have heart problems, including coronary artery disease.

Answer by  dryuha (735)

In the heart stress test basically used to stratify ris of coronary heart disease. Patients will be asked to walk and then run on the threadmill. Positive result is when there is specific ECG changes and means you have high risk of developing heart attack.

Answer by  G12345 (1808)

They are bascially a way of detecting if your heart muscle gets ischemic during stress and thus is used to predict your risk of cornary artery disease and need for angioplasty.

Answer by  dryuha (735)

Heart stress test is done to stratify the risk of you getting coronary heart disease. It is positive if the is specific ECG changes noted when you are doing test.