One hundred fourteen patients with variant angina performed bicycle exercise stress tests, and were divided into three groups. Group 1 included 37 patients with a normal exercise test. Coronary ...

People who spend their days sedentary after a heart-related emergency may face a greater risk of another cardiac event or even death within a year.

Main outcome measure Accounts and observations of consultations in chest pain clinics. Results The exercise ECG was observed to have functions that extended beyond diagnosis. It was used to clarify a ...

Methods: Inpatients [n = 103, median age 56 (46–65) years, 65 (63%) men] with suspected NSTE-ACS without high-risk criteria underwent exercise SE using a semi-supine cycle ergometer. Abnormal stress ...

The reduction in temperature produced no changes in heart rate, cardiac output, stroke volume or central venous pressure, either at rest or during exercise (Table 1). Angina occurred in one ...

It is more common in women. Variant angina pectoris. This is also called Prinzmetal angina. It is rare. It occurs almost only at rest, not after exercise or stress. It usually occurs between midnight ...

From the Department of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California. A retrospective analysis was made of the reproducibility of a treadmill exercise tolerance test ...

From the Cardiology Branch, National Heart and Lung Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20014. The severity of angina and the effects of therapeutic interventions in patients with coronary artery disease ...

Moreover, said Verheye, they only have a modest mortality risk and their current quality of life is extremely poor. “They are scared to exercise because when they do they get angina,” he said.