When Krishna Patel, MD, ordered a cardiac stress test for an 80-year-old patient, she did not expect how the move — the standard of care for patients with elevated coronary artery calcium — would ...

Cold weather doesn’t just change the landscape outside—it changes what’s happening inside the body too, especially the heart. For men over 55, winter conditions can quietly turn a routine cardiac ...

One of the strongest predictors of long-term mortality among patients undergoing a cardiac stress test is the need for a pharmacologic versus treadmill test, new data show. Moreover, although the risk ...

A new study shows significant long-term reductions in the stress hormone cortisol in seniors taking part in the O'stress program. A Canadian research team has released the results of a study on stress ...

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