Sex and jogging can cause heart attacks if not done regularly - Sex can kill you if you're not in shape, researchers in Massachusetts have concluded.
Indeed, sudden spurts of moderate or intense physical activity like passionate sex (or even jogging) by people who don't get regular exercise greatly increase their chance of having a heart attack, researchers at Tufts Medical Center in Boston announced Tuesday.
Dr. Issa Dahabreh, whose study appears in the March 23 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn., explained that people are 3.5 times more likely to get a heart attack when they are exercising compared to when they are at rest. Likewise people are 2.7 times more likely to have a heart attack when they are having sex (or immediately afterward) than when they are not having sex.
Sex and jogging can cause heart attacks if not done regularly
Jessica Paulus, a researcher who worked on the study and who also teaches at Harvard, told Reuters that she doesn't want people to think that exercise (or sex) is bad for one's health.
Indeed, the study found that every time a person exercised in a week, they lowered their chances of a heart attack by 45%. But when sudden activity is attempted by people who usually aren't active, problems can take place. Sometimes serious problems.
"If you take 1,000 people, each individual session of physical or sexual activity per week can be associated with an increase of one to two cases of heart attack or sudden cardiac death per year," Paulus said. "The recommendation from our paper is consistent with current guidelines, that those looking to initiate an exercise program, especially those at higher risk, do so very gradually and under the care of a clinician or physician." ( latimes.com )
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