Giving details about sexual life after heart diseases, Dr KK Aggarwal, President Heart Care Foundation of India, said that extramarital affairs are not safe for heart patients as they are usually done with much younger partner at unusual time, circumstances, situation, and place. Extramarital affairs can put strain on the heart, increase pulse rate and cause heart attack.

Extramarital affairs also involve indiscriminate use of Viagra–like drugs, which may be harmful to the heart if underlying serious blockages are present and the person is not accustomed with normal sexual life. Dr. Aggarwal said that there is a rule of thumb, if a person can walk 2 kms or climb 2 flights of stairs; he or she is cardiac safe to enter into marital relationships.

Dr Aggarwal said that doing mental or physical work while exhausted may harm your health, as per a study from University of Alabama at Birmingham and published in International Journal of Psychophysiology. Commenting on the study he said that fatigued people have bigger spikes in blood pressure than well–rested people while doing a memorization test. When fatigued people regard a task as worthwhile and achievable, they increase their effort to compensate for their diminished capability. As a result, the blood pressure of a tired person increases and remains high until the task is completed or the person gives up.

In this study, Wright and colleagues told 80 volunteers they could win a modest prize by memorizing two or six nonsense trigrams (meaningless, three–letter sequences) within two minutes. Compared to volunteers with low levels of fatigue, those with moderate fatigue had stronger blood pressure while doing the two-trigram memorization task.