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Stress Test Side Effects - Articles
Genetic Test Can Predict Drug Side Effects
by
Lisa E. L.
Posted
Thu 19 Nov 2009 10:02pm
There’s a dramatic piece in the Washington Post today about how genetic testing can predict whether a person will process certain medications, or experience side effects. The Mayo Clinic has been using these tests, particularly with children and people with family histories of bad side effects. But this testing hasn’t hit mainstream usage…yet
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Non-Stress Tests are causing me STRESS!!!
by
Helene
Posted
Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:56pm
Why do they call them Non-stress Tests?? I find that they do nothing but cause me more stress. Today's NST lasted 90 minutes long...yes, 90 minutes long! Let me start off... what I had planned! She took my BP after the NST and it had gone down a little but not too much....no shocker there considering how stressful the "non-stress" test was. Overall
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Foundations of Clinical Medicine, Echocardiograph Lab, and Stress Test
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CCLCM Student ..
Posted
Thu 23 Oct 2008 2:04pm
, and I have to say that the backpack definitely ruins the effect!
In the afternoon, I studied in the library for a while until it was time for me to take my stress test.... Basically the stress test consisted of me having to walk and jog on a treadmill at progressively more difficult levels. I was wearing electrodes so that the technician could get
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Hit me one more time with those side effects! (CLICK TO READ ABOUT CHEMO SIDE EFFECTS)
by
msrenda
Posted
Fri 21 Aug 2009 12:39pm
on.....and..HMMMMM I forgot what I was writing about! LOL Oh yeah chemo side effects, that's it! I'm very lucky that I haven't been nauseated or sick during my chemo, I'm fortunate that my... was getting better. I liked hearing that and I think that's a great way to look at all the side effects. They are only temporary and each time that toxic waste goes into my body, those
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Beware the "false positive" stress test
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Dr. William D.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:17pm
There's a widely-known (among cardiologists) problem with nuclear stress tests. It's called the "false positive." (Nuclear stress tests are known as stress Cardiolites, stress thalliums, stress Myoviews, persantine stress tests, adenosine stress tests)
Stress tests, nuclear and otherwise, are helpful for identifying areas of poor blood flow
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My stress test was normal. I don't need a heart scan!
by
Dr. William D.
Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:26pm
Katy had undergone a stress test while being seen in an emergency room, where she'd gone one weekend because of a dull pain on the right side of her chest. After her stress... you've accomplished.
But Katy declared, "But I didn't think another heart scan was necessary. My stress test was normal!"
What Katy was struggling to understand was that even
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