S'ex is rarely the cause of a heart attack, and most
heart disease patients are safe to resume s'exual activity after a heart attack,
according to a research published in the Journal of the American
College of Cardiology.
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1.S'exual activity can be a concern for many
heart attack patients who worry about exertion triggering another heart event,
but data on the harms and benefits of s'exual activity in heart disease patients
is limited. According to the research letter, sexual activity generally
involves moderate physical activity comparable to climbing two staircases or
taking a brisk walk.
Researchers looked
at 536 heart disease patients between 30 and 70 years old to evaluate s'exual
activity in the 12 months before a heart attack and estimate the association of
frequency of s'exual activity with subsequent cardiovascular events, including fatal
heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death.
In a self-reported
questionnaire, 14.9% of patients reported no s'exual activity in the 12 months
before their heart attack, 4.7% reported s'.ex less than once per month, 25.4%
reported less than once per week and 55% reported several times in a week.
During 10 years of research follow up, 100 adverse cardiovascular events
occurred in patients in the study. S;exual activity was not a risk factor for
subsequent adverse cardiovascular events.
Researchers also
evaluated the timing of the last s'exual activity before the heart attack. Only
0.7% reported s ex within an hour before their heart attack. In comparison, over
78% reported that their last s;exual activity occurred more than 24 hours before
the heart attack.
"Based on our
data, it seems very unlikely that sexual activity is a relevant trigger of
heart attack," said Dietrich Rothenbacher, M.D., M.P.H., lead author of
the study and professor and chair of the Institute of Epidemiology and Medical
Biometry at Ulm University in Ulm, Germany. "Less than half of men and
less than a third of women are getting information about sexual activity after
heart attack from their doctors. It is important to reassure patieonts that
they need not be worried and should resume their usual s'exual activity."
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Researchers again
said that despite the benefits of s'exual activity outweighing risks, the
potential of erectile dysfunction as a side effect from various cardiovascular
protective medications and the risk of a drop in blood pressure from combining
certain heart medications with erectile dysfunction medications should be
clearly communicated to patients.
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