how often is a stress test recommended?

Answer 1

If you are currently a person with CAD I would have one every year to measure your state of health, if you mean as a precautionary measure with no symptoms then once every 5 years, sooner obviously if you develop symptoms

Answer 2

How often someone needs a stress test depends on several factors:

1. How old you are. Few people need stress tests before around age 50, unless they have risk factors for CAD [coronary artery disease] or symptoms.

2. How many risk factors for CAD you have. The more risk factors you have [smoking, age, male sex, diabetes, high cholesterol, family history of heart disease], the higher your risk for developing CAD, and the more often you should be tested.

3. Whether you already have CAD. People who already have CAD are at high risk for further heart attacks, and should have testing more frequently than others.

So, unfortunately, there's no single right answer to your question. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Treadmill (Stress) testing seeks to establish the relationship between chest discomfort and the typical EKG (ECG) signs of myocardial ischemia (a decrease in heart muscle oxygenation). The risk of fatal complications is very nil and actually recorded at 1 fatality and 2 nonfatal complication in 10,000 tests. It is usually done not as a serial test but as a way to determine the presence of ischemic heart disease in patients having symptoms pointing to its possibility.

Answer 4

Stress test is recommended for estimating the functional capacity of heart to withstand acertain amount of stress in different conditions.The mortality during the test is very very negligible.

Answer 5

Stress test have been known to kill people undergoing them, so you decide for yourself.

Answer 6

This is totally up to your doctor. But, I would say, include it in your yearly physical.

Answer 7

i would let your cardiologist be the judge of that.