Sex can be heart attack trigger for couch potatoes

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Sex can be heart attack trigger for couch potatoes
CHICAGO – Sex and exercise can trigger heart attacks in older people who don't get much of either, a new analysis finds. The risk is low, but it's a good reminder that slackers should change their exercise habits gradually, especially in middle age.
People who exercise regularly have a much smaller risk of having a heart attack immediately after sexual or physical activity,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said lead author Dr. Issa Dahabreh of Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
"It would be really bad if someone thought our paper means people should not exercise,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Dahabreh said. "If anything,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it's the opposite."
The analysis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], combined results from 14 studies involving more than 6,000 patients.
Most of the patients in the studies were in their late 50s and early 60s, but the findings are a cautionary tale for people in any age group who are slowing down.
Exercise might even be considered cross-training for sex, said Mercedes Carnethon, a heart disease researcher at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who wasn't involved in the research.
"Engaging in regular physical activity is a requirement for maintaining a long, safe, healthy sex life," Carnethon said.