title: Ask the doctor. I was having occasional chest pains, and my primary care physician recommended a stress test. Because I have bad knees, the cardiologist had me take a stress test using a medication instead of doing exercise. Fortunately, the results were normal. But it made me wonder: is one type better than the other?
authors.forename: Deepak L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Bhatt
mesh_terms: D003329:Coronary Vasospasm / Q000139:chemically induced*; D005080:Exercise Test; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee; D010353:Patient Education as Topic