New York Times health columnist Gretchen Reynolds would like to set the record straight; the record having been set crooked last month by media reports on a Tufts Medical Center study of events that are likely to trigger heart attacks. Several news outlets apparently took the researchers’ finding that “Acute cardiac events were significantly associated with episodic physical and sexual activity” and ran with it. Reynolds kindly points out that “the role that such exertions play in heart health and heart attacks is layered and complicated. In study after study, the Tufts researchers found, regular physical activity significantly decreased an individual’s overall risk of suffering a heart attack.” In other words, Reynolds’ other words, to be transparent, “a distance runner is less likely to suffer a cardiac event at any time in his life than someone who is inactive. But if, for whatever reason, that runner should be stricken, he is slightly more likely to experience the attack in the hours after a run than on days when he gets no exercise (unless, perhaps, that day is Christmas).”
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