Why Climb Stairs When You Can Have Sex

Most people with heart disease can have sex without risk. In a recent scientific statement, the American Heart Association makes this claim for the first time regarding the link between sex and cardiovascular disease.

According to the AHA statement, which is based on the advice of experts in cardiovascular disease, exercise physiology, and sexual counseling, it is reasonable for patients to be assessed by their doctor or health care provider before resuming sexual activity Good Sex Movies

after receiving a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease.

Sex is similar to light to moderate exercise like brisk walking or ascending a number of stairs. The statement also makes it clear that people with severe or unstable heart disease, including those who experience symptoms with even light activity or while lying still, should postpone having sexual relations until their condition has been stabilized with the proper medical care.

ADVERTISEMENT There is no need to put one's sex life on hold for the vast majority of cardiovascular patients, those with stable disease, though. However, many patients and their partners are hesitant to have sex after discovering they have a cardiovascular condition out of concern that it will result in an acute attack or even death.

Sexual activity is a significant quality of life issue for men and women with cardiovascular disease and their partners, according to Dr. Glenn Levine, the statement's lead author and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. It's crucial to assist couples in overcoming excessive apprehension about having sex. In actuality, there is very little chance of having a heart attack during sex. Dr. Levine points out that having sex is typically comparable to light to moderate exercise, like brisk walking or ascending several flights of stairs.

Even less of a chance exists for cardiac death. In actuality, playing golf is much more likely to result in death for someone with cardiovascular disease than having sex. When sex-related cardiac death does occur, it almost always affects men and primarily affects those who are engaging in extramarital sex, frequently with a younger partner in an unfamiliar location and/or after bingeing on food and alcohol. But both men and women with cardiovascular disease frequently report a decline in sexual interest or activity.

 Although underlying cardiovascular disease can cause sexual dysfunction, anxiety and depression are more frequently linked to it. The AHA statement embraces a positive perspective of sex as part of a strategy to get back to living normally. The statement makes it clear that such drugs should not be used by everyone, but it also stipulates that heart and stroke patients do not necessarily need to avoid drugs that enhance sexual enjoyment. The majority of the time, erectile dysfunction medications are safe for men with stable cardiovascular disease.

However, men who take nitrates shouldn't use these medications because they are dangerous when combined with nitrate medications for chest pain. The AHA statement comes to the conclusion that using topical or vaginally inserted estrogen to treat painful intercourse is acceptable for post-menopausal women with cardiovascular disease. ADVERTISEMENT Even though many patients might be worried about starting up again, they frequently feel ashamed to bring it up with their doctor. When it is actually relatively safe for them to engage in sexual activity, some patients choose to put it off, according to Dr. Levine. "Unfortunately, sexual activity-related conversations are infrequent in the clinical setting." Why climb stairs when you can engage in sexual activity.

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