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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Resumption of sexual activity after acute myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with improved long-term survival, according to a study published online Sept. 22 in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Gali Cohen, from Tel Aviv University in Israel, and colleagues examined the association between resumption of sexual activity frequency following MI and long-term survival. The analysis included 495 sexually active patients aged \u226465 years participating in the longitudinal Israel Study of First Acute Myocardial Infarction (initial hospitalization 1992 to 1993).<\/p>\n
The researchers found that patients who maintained\/increased sexual activity frequency (53 percent) were more likely to be of higher socioeconomic status and to express lower levels of depression versus patients who abstained\/decreased. During a median follow-up of 22 years, 43 percent of patients died, but maintaining\/increasing sexual activity frequency was inversely associated with all-cause mortality (hazard ratio [HR], 0.65; 95 percent confidence interval [CI], 0.48 to 0.88) versus abstaining\/reducing. This association was even more pronounced for noncardiovascular mortality (HR, 0.56; 95 percent CI, 0.36 to 0.85) than cardiovascular mortality (HR, 0.90; 95 percent CI, 0.53 to 1.51).<\/p>\n
“Resumption of sexual activity frequency within the first months after MI was strongly associated with improved long-term survival, highlighting the need for sexual counselling shortly after MI,” the authors write.<\/p>\n