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Executive Physical

This comprehensive test includes a diagnostic cardiovascular exam, as well as an evaluation of your lifestyle, nutritional habits and fitness level. Mercy's team of heart experts provides specific diet and stress management guidelines, a custom exercise program and additional heart health recommendations based upon your needs.
Components
- Height/weight
- Measurement of percent body fat
- Blood pressure/heart rate
- Colon cancer test
- Blood analysis: screens for diabetes, anemia and liver, kidney and heart disease
- Medical History
- Cardiovascular risk factors analysis
- Electrocardiogram
- Stress Echo: evaluates the heart at rest and with exercise. Pulmonary function test
- *Carotid Duplex: screen for narrowed neck arteries that could lead to stroke.
- *Abdominal Duplex: screen Abdominal Aortic Aneurism
- **Calcium Scoring: screen to detect calcium deposits in the arteries of the heart which can cause narrowing in the arteries and may lead to a heart attack
- Muscle strength/endurance
- Flexibility/range of motion testing
- Stress and tension profile
- Analysis of eating behaviors
Length of testing:
- 3 hours
- 1 hour: follow-up consultation
Benefits:
- Personalized report summarizing results and recommendations
- Individual counseling
- Nutritional guidance
- Physical training guidelines
- Cardiologist approved exercise prescription
- Complete interpretation and analysis of test results
*The Carotid Duplex, and/or Abdominal Duplex may be recommended based on evaluation of risk factors.
**Testing performed depends on risk factors
Services
- Anticoagulation Clinic
- Cardiac Surgery
- Clinical Cardiology
- Congestive Heart Failure Clinic
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Heart Rhythm Center
- Interventional Cardiology
- Iowa Heart Mobile Imaging
- Iowa Vascular Institute
- Medication Assistance Program
- Preventive Cardiology Center
- Research Center
- Sleep Center
- Thoracic Surgery
- Valve Clinic
- Vein Center at Iowa Heart


