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To: JimRed

To each their own. My Father had one done and days later endured a massive heart attack. Died 3 months later.
47 years old.


5 posted on 07/15/2017 10:13:10 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: eyedigress

Condolences on your loss. My dad died at my age, of a heart attack, but mom lived to 95. I was hoping I got her genes, but no such luck!


7 posted on 07/15/2017 10:16:46 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: eyedigress

“To each their own. My Father had one done and days later endured a massive heart attack. Died 3 months later.
47 years old.”

Nuclear stress tests are little better than nothing, but that’s about it: way too many false negatives and positives to rely on. Insurance likes them because they’re cheap compared to angiography, which is the ONLY reliable test.

https://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear+stress+test+false+negatives&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

If you’ve ever looked at the images produced by a nuclear stress test, you’d be shocked at the almost complete absence of any meaningful resolution.

I was having symptoms when a nuclear stress test showed zip; fortunately my cardiologist made a clinical decision to do an angiogram based on my family history and symptoms (and not the test result) and saved my life.


19 posted on 07/15/2017 11:07:13 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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