{"id":7079,"date":"2011-03-22T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=7079"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:29","slug":"good-news-and-bad-news-about-physical-and-sexual-activity-and-cardiac-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/03\/22\/good-news-and-bad-news-about-physical-and-sexual-activity-and-cardiac-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News And Bad News About Physical And Sexual Activity and Cardiac Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news is that physical and sexual activity can trigger acute  cardiac events. The good news is that the immediate increase in risk  becomes much smaller with more frequent activity, and the long-term  overall benefits of activity remain unchallenged. These are the key  findings of a meta-analysis by Issa Dahabreh and Jessica Paulus  <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/content\/305\/12\/1225.short\">published in <em>JAMA<\/em><\/a> of 14 case-crossover studies.<\/p>\n<p>The authors write that their &#8220;results are not incompatible with the  well-established beneficial effect of regular physical activity on the  risk of acute coronary events: active individuals are overall at a lower  risk of such events compared with inactive individuals; however, during  the short time period of acute exposure to physical or sexual activity,  an individual\u2019s risk of an event is increased compared with unexposed  periods of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their findings, they write, suggest &#8220;that physicians counseling  patients regarding their exercise habits may need to tailor their advice  to the patients\u2019 habitual activity levels: sedentary individuals should  be counseled to increase the frequency and intensity of physical  activity gradually.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news is that physical and sexual activity can trigger acute cardiac events. The good news is that the immediate increase in risk becomes much smaller with more frequent activity, and the long-term overall benefits of activity remain unchallenged. These are the key findings of a meta-analysis by Issa Dahabreh and Jessica Paulus published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[750,749,751],"class_list":["post-7079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-activity","tag-exercise","tag-sexual-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}