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Recently, I went to get my physical. I thought I was in pretty great shape. I knew I did not workout enough, but I ate on fairly healthily, slept well, and did not drink to excess or smoke. What would go wrong? To my surprisal, quite a bit. I have an unusually exhaustive physician. A normal doctor may not have caught my troubles, but the one I had insisted on arranging a stress test. You see, I had just had my forty-second birthday. Heart disease runs in my family, so he believed it was significant to measure my cardiac performance. Stress tests do just that.
If you have never had a stress test, is not an experience to relish. It is moderately creepy and humiliating as a matter of fact. They put you on a treadmill, hook you up to machines, and measure out all of your critical signs as you are put through strenuous physical activities. They workout test, nevertheless, is not merely a physical fitness test. It is much more significant than that. Even if you are fit, there can be hidden signs of deteriorating heart conditions. The heart stress test, for instance, can detect decreased blood flow through the arteries, heart murmurs, palpitations, and other dangerous problems.
Course, I was familiar with the idea of a stress test, but I had never been subject to one before. In my line of work, you see, stress tests are used to diagnose something very different than cardiac troubles. I really design plans to test web applications and computer networking systems to see how they perform under various stresses. It may surprise you to hear it, but computerised systems can break up in the same way that individuals can. Put enough stress on any system and, if it has a weakness in it, that weakness will cause it to fail.
When the weakness is in your heart, however, it is even more alarming than some flaw in a computer network! My stress test was not disastrous, but it was not pleasant either. Obviously, I had moderately severe hardening of the arteries. Though it was not enough to warrant surgery, it did worry my physician. I had to go on a particular medical diet, take cholesterol pills, and start going through a special physical exercise routine to build up my cardiac wellness. I guess I’m glad that I got that cardiac tests, but it was not pleasant to hear the bad news. I just hope that the physician suggestions are enough!