When you stop exercising, your heart does not immediately come back to its normal resting rate. The heart returns to its normal rhythm at a gradual pace, during a process called heart rate recovery ...

Slower heart rate recovery before PCI independently predicts periprocedural myocardial infarction and may improve cardiac risk assessment.

From left, Manuel Hernandez, Ayse Dogan and Richard Sowers watch as graduate student Laila Shaaban walks on a treadmill while a “smart shirt” tracks electrical activity in her heart. In the background ...