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The three things that can go wrong with the heart

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

The problem with both these tests are that they study the heart at rest and sometimes abnormalities may be picked up only when the heart is stressed and therefore combining these modalities with a stress test can be even more helpful and by far the best form of stress is exercise.

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What do heart tests tell us?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

So today i wanted to talk to you about what each heart test tells us about these different aspects of heart disease Tests that tell you about the heart as a pump The most commonly used test to assess the heart as a pump is an echocardiogram. So we need different tests when we are evaluating the heart arteries.