Jan. 12 (UPI) —<\/span> Younger adults with a history of heart disease and other heart-related ailments can enjoy sex, safely, provided they take precautions, a study published Wednesday by JAMA Cardiology found.<\/p>\n Of nearly 7,000 cases of sudden cardiac death, or fatalities caused by a heart attack, cardiac arrest or stroke, reported to an English hospital over a 25-year period, just 17 occurred after sexual activity, the data showed.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Most of those who died were in their late 30s and were male, and autopsies revealed that most had evidence of a genetic heart defect, irregular heartbeat or other form of heart disease, the researchers said.<\/p>\n “Younger individuals, aged 50 years [or less], with cardiac conditions … may be concerned about their risk for sudden death during sexual intercourse,” researchers from St. George’s University of London wrote.\n<\/p>\n “We believe these findings provide some reassurance that engaging in sexual activity is relatively safe in patients with a cardiac condition,” they said.<\/p>\n Similar studies conducted in the United States also have suggested that well under 1% of sudden cardiac deaths cases occur during or after sexual activity.<\/p>\n For this study, the researchers analyzed data on 6,847 cases of sudden cardiac death reported to St. George’s University of London between Jan. 1, 1994, and Aug. 31, 2020.\n<\/p>\n In 17 cases, death occurred during or within one hour of sexual intercourse, the data showed.<\/p>\n Of those who died under these circumstances, one had been diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse, or a thickened heart valve, a common form of heart disease, while another had a history of high blood pressure, the researchers said.<\/p>\n Two of those who died had no evidence of heart disease, based on autopsy results, they said.\n<\/p>\n Six of the cases involved women, a higher proportion than found in previous studies, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n “Sudden cardiac death may occur in various circumstances, including physical exercise and sexual intercourse,” the researchers wrote.<\/p>\n “The most common autopsy finding was sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, suggesting that primary electrical disease may be associated with a rare incidence of sudden death during sexual intercourse,” they said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Death from a heart attack, cardiac arrest or stroke during sex is rare in younger adults, according to a new study. File photo by ronstik\/Shutterstock Jan. 12 (UPI) — Younger adults with a history of heart disease and other heart-related ailments can enjoy sex, safely, provided they take precautions, a study published Wednesday by JAMA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":746587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1371,371,1363,48,425,1017,28,1391,1392],"class_list":["post-746586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-adults","tag-death","tag-disease","tag-heart","tag-risk","tag-sex","tag-study","tag-sudden","tag-younger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nDeath from a heart attack, cardiac arrest or stroke during sex is rare in younger adults, according to a new study. File photo by ronstik\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n