title: Exercise testing in ischaemic heart disease.
abstract: The exercise test may be regarded as an objective measure of functional capacity and a useful adjunct to the history given by the patient. As a means of diagnosis it has many limitations but a positive result in a male patient provides good corroborative evidence for the presence of coronary artery disease. As a means of predicting severity of disease the test remains imperfect but may prove useful with further refinements. The exercise test is of little value for screening except in special circumstances.
mesh_terms: D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male