Yes, sex can kill you, U.S. study shows

StephenW

Reuters) - Sudden bursts of moderate to intense physical activity -- such as jogging or having sex -- significantly increase the risk of having a heart attack, especially in people who do not get regular exercise, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

Doctors have long known that physical activity can cause serious heart problems, but the new study helps to quantify that risk, Dr. Issa Dahabreh of Tufts Medical Center in Boston, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The team analyzed data from 14 studies looking at the link between exercise, sex and the risk of heart attacks or sudden cardiac death -- a lethal heart rhythm that causes the heart to stop circulating blood.

They found people are 3.5 times more likely to get a heart attack or have sudden cardiac death when they are exercising compared to when they are not.

And they are 2.7 times more likely to get a heart attack when they are having sex or immediately afterward compared with when they are not. (These findings do not apply to sudden cardiac death because there were no studies looking at the link between sex and cardiac death.)

Jessica Paulus, another Tufts researcher who worked on the study, said the risk is fairly high as such studies go. But the period of increased risk is brief.

"These elevated risks are only for a short period of time (1 to 2 hours) during and after the physical or sexual activity," Paulus said in a telephone interview.

Because of that, the risk to individuals over the course of a year is still quite small, she said.

"If you take 10,000 people, each individual session of physical or sexual activity per week can be associated with an increase of 1 to 2 cases of heart attack or sudden cardiac death per year," Paulus said.

She said it is important to balance the findings with other studies showing that regular physical activity reduces the risk of heart attacks and sudden cardiac death by 30 percent.

"What we really don't want to do is for the public to walk away from this and think exercise is bad," she said.

What it does mean is that people who do not exercise regularly need to start any exercise program slowly, gradually increasing the intensity of the workout over time.

(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

ww1984

yes

StephenW

ww1984 发表于 2011-3-25 08:33
yes

There is a message in the report: If you don't want to die from sex
1. Do regular exercise, or
2. Have regular sex, or
3. Don't have sex.

Mmmmm....

ww1984

we all willl die someday weather we have the first sex or not

StephenW

ww1984 发表于 2011-3-25 20:53
we all willl die someday weather we have the first sex or not

Hmm. Your statement seems to be very deep. I cannot work out whether you are for having sex or against having sex or don't care. A wise lady once said: " once you are born, you are going to die." She didn't say anything about sex.

ww1984

StephenW 发表于 2011-3-25 21:07
Hmm. Your statement seems to be very deep. I cannot work out whether you are for having sex or agai ...

meto，nothing about sex

StephenW

ww1984 发表于 2011-3-25 21:25
meto，nothing about sex

Hmm..  Another deep response, meaning..........

ww1984

StephenW 发表于 2011-3-25 21:27
Hmm..  Another deep response, meaning..........

[size=1.3em]on the 2nd floor，i meant "too much sex will definitly kill you"
on the 4th floor，i meant "we all will die,no matter we have sex or not"
on the 6th floor, i meant"i agree with the lady you nentioned above"

sorry ,so much  troubble  for u

StephenW

ww1984 发表于 2011-3-25 21:40
on the 2nd floor，i meant "too much sex will definitly kill you"
on the 4th floor，i meant "we all ...

Thank you - not so deep after all, just that I am too dumb (only to-night).

ww1984

StephenW 发表于 2011-3-25 21:54
Thank you - not so deep after all, just that I am too dumb (only to-night).

me to blame