Community | March 24, 2011 | 52 comments

Having sex after a dry spell could kill you. Just great.

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You've finally managed to end a lengthy, difficult dry spell and now you're finally having sex. And it feels amazing. Slight problem though... you might be about to die.

New research, from the kind of scientists who seem intent on spoiling people's fun instead of curing cancer, suggests that having sex only occasionally puts you at more than twice the risk of having a heart attack.

You're damned if you don't; you're nearly twice as damned if you do.

The problem arises in people who aren't used to any regular physical exercise. When they go for an irregular workout, or have sex, the risk of cardiac problems is 2.7 times as high as normal.

The good news is the risk of a heart attack can be reduced by regular physical activity, though a small risk does apply to everyone, even the healthiest of gym bunnies.

"Regular physical activity has been identified as strongly associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease and related mortality," the researchers at Tufts and Harvard Universities in Boston wrote.

"Despite the well-established benefits of regular physical activity, anecdotal evidence has suggested that physical activity, as well as other acute exposures, such as sexual activity and psychological stress, can act as triggers of acute cardiac events."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8398286/Occasional-physical-and-sex...
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