Testing: Can Doctors Predict a Heart Attack?
Testing for heart disease includes the ECG, stress testing, and heart imaging with echocardiography and nuclear imaging. Newer technology includes the use of CT scans and MRI machines. These promises even better diagnostic capabilities.
These tests can diagnose prior heart attacks, whether ongoing symptoms are due to coronary artery disease, and future risk of heart attack.
These tests can diagnose prior heart attacks, whether ongoing symptoms are due to coronary artery disease, and future risk of heart attack.
Stress Echocardiography: Another Kind of Stress Testing
Taking pictures of heart before and during stress provides additional information to doctors about coronary artery disease and can diagnose a heart attack and predict risk.
Taking pictures of heart before and during stress provides additional information to doctors about coronary artery disease and can diagnose a heart attack and predict risk.
Stress Testing: Did I and Will I Have a Heart Attack?
Stress testing is often used in those who are at risk of coronary artery disease to both diagnose ischemia (decreased blood flow to heart muscle) and prior heart attacks as well as predict the risk of such in the future.
Stress testing is often used in those who are at risk of coronary artery disease to both diagnose ischemia (decreased blood flow to heart muscle) and prior heart attacks as well as predict the risk of such in the future.
Blood Tests to Determine Risk
Blood tests help predict the risk of developing coronary artery disease.
Blood tests help predict the risk of developing coronary artery disease.