학술논문

Improved myocardial ischemia detection by combined physical and mental stress testing.
Document Type
Journal Article
Source
American Journal of Cardiology. 1998 Jul 1, Vol. 82 Issue 1, p109-113. 5p.
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ISSN
0002-9149
Abstract
The hypothesis that addition of mental stress to physical exercise would modify the circulation response to stress and improve noninvasive detection of myocardial ischemia was tested in a randomized, crossover radionuclide angiocardiographic study. Compared with physical exercise or mental stress alone, combined stress led to higher heart rates and rate-pressure products in early stress stages, to more pronounced symptoms, and to a better discrimination of subjects with and without coronary artery disease by radionuclide angiography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]