A stress test
This article notes that sometimes the stress ordered for cases of angina (chest pains) are uncalled for (and sometimes fatal) I know that the stress test requires the subject to jog or walk briskly on a treadmill for at least 30 minutes until the maximum heart rate is reached. So that is 220- age. So if you are 30 years old that would be 190. That is really stressing your body and your heart to the max.
For me who can bike for 3 hours and up to 90% of my maximal effort, I could manage maybe l40 beats per minute.
But for somebody with angina and or heart disease, he would not last 10 minutes or may collapse and die.
Will you do a stress test? Is this iatrogenesis?
Stress Test Sometimes not Needed for Angina
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