Safe Sex After a Heart Attack

Sexual activity is not a ban for those who had suffered a heart attack. According to experts, patients who were sexually active before suffering a heart attack can still have sex safely when receiving the right advice and direction of medical personnel (doctors) before leaving the hospital.
Research in the United States shows, many men and women who are afraid to have sex botched heart. So it is not surprising that the frequency of sexual activity tends to decline sharply, especially for a year after suffering a heart attack or acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
Research has shown that many patients are admitted to not getting advice or medical advice on sex akitivitas of physicians before discharge from the hospital. As a result, they were hesitant whether to refrain from having sex once with a partner.
In a 1879 survey of heart attack patients, less than 50 percent of patients were men and one third of female patients who claimed to receive instructions from your doctor about when they can resume sexual activity on his return from the hospital. In fact, only 41 percent of men and 24 percent of female patients who reported having a discussion with a doctor about sex after a heart attack.
Heart botched a year, more than two-thirds of sexually active male patients, and about 40 percent of women have sex again. Patients were more often women than men reported missing a year of sexual activity botched heart if it does not get information about when they can have sex again.
The results of a study published in The American Journal of Cardiology is in line with the preliminary findings presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) in 2010. The author, Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago Medicine said the study highlighted that doctors need to address sexual problems as an important part of overall physical function, even after a life-threatening events like heart attacks.
"Physicians need to understand how to significantly help heart attack patients to avoid unnecessary fear and worry about the risk of recurrence or even death due to return to sexual activity," says Lindau.
"The cardiologist should know more details about the condition of their patients by providing care and advice about safety in physical activity, including sex," he explained,
Several studies show that sex can actually reduce the strain on the heart, and this is contrary to the public understanding over the years. The information allegedly dramatic and sensational news further strengthens the public misunderstanding. In fact, only about 1 percent of all heart attacks occur during sex, and less than 1 percent of heart attack victims die from sexual relations, according to other studies.
"We showed that addressing sexual health can make a difference for long-term results," said study author, Harlan Krumholz, MD, professor of medicine and epidemiology and public health at Yale University School of Medicine.
Current guidelines developed by a group of leading cardiologists, including Krumholz, suggesting that cardiac patients whose condition is stable without complications can resume sexual activity with their partner. This report reinforced the old rule that states, if the patient can do a little exercise - such as climbing stairs - they are generally quite healthy to have sex.