Literally, that was killer sex

William Atkins
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 23:36

Science - Health

New research out of the United States has found that having sex or short periods of physical activity can raise your risk of a heart attack, especially if you don't exercise or only exercise irregularly.

The paper entitled 'Association of Episodic Physical and Sexual Activity With Triggering of Acute Cardiac Events' summarizes the topic of having sex and a heart attack. It appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

It is authored by Dr. Issa J. Dahabreh, from the Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis at the Tufts Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) and Dr. Jessica K. Paulus, from Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts University.

Previous studies have shown that physical activity, including sexual activity, might cause heart attacks (acute cardiac events).

Thus, these two American researchers decided to back up these studies with some data on the 'effect of episodic physical and sexual activity on acute cardiac events using data from case-crossover studies.' [Abstract]

They used data from MEDLINE and EMBASE (ending on February 2, 2011) and the Web of Science (ending with data on October 6, 2010).

They used data associating episodic (infrequent) physical or sexual activity and myocardial infarction (MI, or heart attack) or sudden cardiac death (SCD).

They used fourteen studies in all that included such data associating infrequent physical or sexual activity and heart attack or sudden cardiac death.

Page two discusses the results and conclusion of the study.