One in every hundred fatal heart attacks in men was triggered by sex, according to a new paper exploring the impact of sexual exertion on cardiac arrest.
Sex is a ‘recognised trigger’ for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) – which causes 300,000 deaths a year in the United States but the overall rates are low – the report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiologysays.
The doctors behind the paper stressed the importance of public education on CPR ‘irrespective of circumstance’ after their analysis found just one third of these cases saw resuscitation attempted despite their partner being present.
