/u/Petra-fied on ._.

I know this is mostly a meme, but if this headline genuinely worried anyone, don't bother.

Not only is the article obvious meme-tier clickbait, but they can't even read the paper right. If you read the actual paper what it says is the opposite:

Episodic physical and sexual activity were associated with an increase in the risk of MI (RR=3.45; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.33-5.13, and RR=2.70; 95% CI, 1.48-4.91, respectively). Episodic physical activity was associated with SCD (RR=4.98; 95% CI, 1.47-16.91).

Habitual activity levels significantly affected the association of episodic physical activity and MI (P.001), episodic physical activity and SCD (P.001), and sexual activity and MI (P=.04); in all cases, individuals with lower habitual activity levels had an increased RR for the triggering effect. For every additional time per week an individual was habitually exposed to physical activity, the RR for MI decreased by approximately 45%, and the RR for SCD decreased by 30%.

And the kicker:

Conclusion Acute cardiac events were significantly associated with episodic physical and sexual activity; this association was attenuated among persons with high levels of habitual physical activity

TL;DR, what this means is that, assuming you don't do a lot of regular exercise, "episodic" (meaning from time to time) sexual activity actually increases your risk of sudden cardiac death etc because it's a stressor on a body not used to handling it.

The study even says that the more regular activity you do, the less this effect applies, meaning in short, "doing more physical activity means your chances of dying from heart issues lowers" which is something we all already knew, and that sexual activity is often a kind of physical activity. That's... literally it.

As others have pointed out, the article doesn't define sexual activity, and I can't be bothered to dredge up the source studies to see how they defined and measured it, the study itself says that both the source studies and the outcome of this review have large confidence intervals anyway, so it's hard to get that much useful information out of it beyond the aforementioned platitudes.

In short, the entire article could be replaced with "this just in- regular exercise good."





December 10, 2020 at 11:35PM
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