They also made national estimates of the cost of unnecessary cardiac stress testing with imaging and the health burden of this testing, in terms of cancer risk due to radiation exposure. (sciencedaily.com)
To test whether the childhood infection and stem cell depletion had any effect on the adult heart, the researchers exposed infected mice to two different types of cardiac stress. (sciencedaily.com)
The investigators concluded that the national growth in cardiac stress testing can be attributed largely to population and provider characteristics — but the use of imaging can not. (sciencedaily.com)