Thursday, November 7, 2013

Heart-attack and mens health

Heart-rush patients who don’t talk to their doctors about when it’s uninjured to have sex again are likely to see a droplet-off in their sex lives, new investigation suggests. Doctors don’t seem to be having “the talk” with most of their patients—especially if the patients are women. Only 46% of men and 35% of women discussed sex with their doctors when they leftist the medical center, the study found. Even fewer—about 40% of men and just 18% of women—ever discussed it during the following year. Many heart-attack survivors who refrain from sex may be doing so out of terror, says the conduct creator of the study, Stacy Lindau, MD, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago. Usually speaking, it’s safe to carry on sex activity—or any mild-to-moderate physical activity—a few weeks after an uncomplicated heart attack, says cardiologist Nieca Goldberg, MD, the medical director of New York University’s Women’s Heart Program, who was not implicated in the study. “When I talk about it, I comprise it in a discussion about physical activity,” she says. “That’s what people are worried about.” But many cardiologists give inadequate instructions when it comes to sex and practice, Dr. Goldberg adds. The study “clearly shows the need for us to do better,” she says. Dr. Lindau and her colleagues evaluated data from a long-running memorize of heart attack survivors. As part of that study, about 1,200 men and 600 women were surveyed and asked to recall their reproductive activity before their heart attack, and one year after. The normally age of the participants was about 60.Compared to the patients who did talk to their doctor about sex, the men and women who did not were 30% and 40% more likely, respectively, to be having less sex than established one year after their heart attack.

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