How safe is a sexual activity in-patient with heart disease?
One must consult a cardiologist, because what is good for one person may not necessarily be good for another. Hellerstein and Friedman have studied cardio-pulmonary responses in middle-aged middle-class convalescent males engaging in sexual activity with their wives in the privacy in their bedrooms. From their studies, it was conces, it was concluded that if a cardiac patient could walk on a treadmill at 3 miles per hour asymptomatically and witho and without undue elevation of blood pressure or electrocardiograph changes, he could safely participate in sexual activity.
