title: Sexual activity in exercising patients after myocardial infarction and revascularization.
abstract: In order to evaluate the effects of exercise training on coital habits after myocardial infarction and revascularization, questionnaires were mailed to 130 patients enrolled in a gymnasium exercise program. Of 87 (67%) responding, 68 had experienced myocardial infarction and 19 had undergone myocardial revascularization. The postinfarction group significantly decreased their frequency of coitus after infarction by 28%; the revascularization group, however, decreased activity by only 10%. The myocardial infarction group waited 9.4 weeks after infarction to resume sexual intercourse, while the revascularization group waited a mean of only 5.7 weeks. These data suggest that physically trained post-myocardial infarction patients decrease frequency of coitus significantly more than physically trained patients with myocardial revascularization. The overall decrease, however, is notably less than that reported in nontrained post-myocardial infarction patients and suggests a "bedroom benefit" of medically supervised exercise in selected patients after infarction or revascularization.
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization; D005082:Physical Exertion; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires