Word: holter
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Then how is silent ischemia diagnosed? Doctors can detect attacks by monitoring electrical signals from their patients' hearts during exercise stress tests; a sudden decrease in blood flow to the muscle changes the signal. The condition can then be confirmed by a Holter monitor, a portable electrocardiograph worn by the patient for at least 24 hours...
Doctors at the conference stressed that detecting silent ischemia will not merely prevent a few thousand dramatic deaths. It will also uncover heart disease in many people who are unaware that they have it. The stress and Holter tests are costly (about $200 each), according to Dr. Carl Pepine, a silent-ischemia expert from the University of Florida at Gainesville, but no more so than the toll ultimately taken by heart disease itself. Says he: "We're talking about the one disease that kills the most people in the country, many in middle age, when they are making their greatest...