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- Title
Sexual Activity in Patients With Angina.
- Authors
DeBusk, Robert F.
- Abstract
Discusses the physical demands of sexual activity on men and women with coronary artery disease. Mechanisms of coital angina, standards tests for physical exertion and cardiovascular tolerance in an individual which can be expressed as the functional reserve; Risk stratification; Management of coital angina and patients treated for erectile dysfunction; Conclusion that only about 5 percent of anginal attacks and less than 1 percent of MIs are brought on by sexual activity.
- Subjects
ANGINA pectoris; SEXUAL intercourse; CORONARY disease; CYCLIC nucleotide phosphodiesterase inhibitors; CHEST pain; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003, Vol 290, Issue 23, p3129
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.290.23.3129