"Walking test can ID heart-lung fitness, mortality risk" by Anne Harding at Health.
If you're middle-aged or older, a 10-minute walking test can give you and your doctor a pretty clear picture of whether you are at higher risk of dying during the next few years compared with other people your age, according to a large new analysis of data showing that cardiorespiratory fitness is intimately linked with the risk of dying of just about any cause.
However, you probably won't get this exercise test unless you ask for it.
The exercise stress test --or, in medical parlance, the graded exercise...