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Sudden Cardiovascular Arrest During Sexual Intercourse
- Source :
- Circulation. 137(15)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Considerable apprehension often surrounds the issue of sudden cardiovascular arrest (SCA) during physical activity, especially that related to sexual intercourse. Sex-related SCA (SxSCA) has been mainly investigated through forensic studies, and epidemiological data are scarce.1 A comparison of the characteristics and outcomes of SxSCA with other SCAs may allow a better understanding of this dramatic condition. The Paris-SDEC registry (Paris-Sudden Death Expertise Center) has been described previously.2 In brief, it is an ongoing, prospective, population-based study in Paris and its suburbs (population 6.7 million). Since May 2011, every case of out-of-hospital SCA aged ≥18 years has been captured, and systematic information has been gathered. Appropriate institutional review boards approved the investigation with waiver of informed consent. Utstein templates and medical records were reviewed by 2 cardiologists. Data from all patients with SCA alive at hospital admission were analyzed. SxSCA was defined as any SCA occurring during coitus or within the following hour, and its characteristics were compared with SCA occurring during other physical activities (exercise-non SxSCA), and at rest (sedentary), as well. All patients admitted alive with a normal coronary angiogram and clinical evidence for a neurological issue systematically underwent a computed …
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Paris
Time Factors
medicine.medical_treatment
Population
Physical Exertion
MEDLINE
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Risk Assessment
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Sex Factors
Informed consent
Risk Factors
Physiology (medical)
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Registries
Acute Coronary Syndrome
education
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Medical record
Age Factors
Coitus
Middle Aged
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Prognosis
Sexual intercourse
Death, Sudden, Cardiac
Emergency medicine
Female
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Risk assessment
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15244539
- Volume :
- 137
- Issue :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Circulation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....84a56b26893edf1eb1ff26738fc7ef2f