In 2000 King acquired a research outfit that is working on an injectable stress-test drug for heart disease suspects who are unable to hit the treadmill to get their heart rate up.
One finding: The type of heart problem that caused cardiac arrest in most of the survivors blood vessels that were too narrow to meet the oxygen demands of the heart during an intense running race can be caught by an exercise stresstest.
Healthy people with no symptoms of a heart problem do not need to undergo stress imaging tests when they go in for a yearly checkup as the test rarely leads to any real change in patient care and management.