Fewer heart blockages showing up on stress tests

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Fewer heart blockages showing up on stress tests

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fewer-heart-blockages-showing-stress-tests-203551854.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/I53owbkjNEjxSt.M.GG3wg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-04T203551Z_1_CBRE9231L7U00_RTROPTP_2_GERMANY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A surgery nurse is seen beside the heart beat monitor in the operating theatre of the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin hospital" align="left" title="A surgery nurse is seen beside the heart beat monitor in the operating theatre of the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin hospital" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The proportion of patients who have blocked arteries show up during a stress test has dropped &quot;enormously&quot; over the past two decades, according to a new study. However, researchers disagreed about why that might be the case - whether the tests are getting worse, people's heart problems are becoming less severe, or simply too many healthy people are being referred for testing they don't need. On a stress test, doctors monitor a person's heart and blood vessels during exercise or after administering a combination of drugs that similarly stress the heart. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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