Answering Your Questions about Heart Disease and Sex

ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT HEART DISEASE AND SEX

Answers for the questions that cardiac patients are too embarrassed to ask.

Over 59 million Americans have heart disease, and they're concerned as to how this will impact their sex lives. Answering Your Questions about Heart Disease and Sex takes the mystery out of heart disease, answering sex-related questions that a patient may be too embarrassed to ask in person. Immediately opening a practical, candid, and informative dialogue with its readers, this book engages this long-neglected subject with enthusiasm.

Eduardo Chapunoff, M.D., examines the question of heart disease and sex from every angle, both medical and personal. Directing his guidance on maintaining intimacy to both heart patients and their partners, this informative and educational book answers even the most personal sexual questions. Some of the chapters include:

·Back to Bed: Rush Versus Procrastination

·Sexual Function and Sexual Behavior: Two Different Issues

·Cardiovascular Disease and Sex: The Risks

·Practical Tips on Commonly Used Cardiac Drugs

·Reversing Coronary Artery Disease: Nutrition, Sex, and Fries

Timely, thoroughly researched, and highly relevant, this guide answers the difficult questions about health, love, and sex that many of us are afraid to ask.

Eduardo Chapunoff, M.D., is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Cardiovascular Disease, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Cardiology, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Currently in private practice, he is the author of Sex and the Cardiac Patient and its Spanish version, El Sexo y el Pacinete Cardiaco.

Foreword

Introduction: Sex, the Heart, and the Search for Happiness

Part I: An Introduction to Sex and the Heart

Chapter 1: A New Beginning:The Good Side of Your Crisis

Chapter 2: Cardiovascular Disease, Sex, and Aging

Chapter 3: When Sex is Not Working the Way it Should: Sexual Dysfunction

Chapter 4: The Female Perspective

Part II: The Risks of Sex

Chapter 5: Instructions for the Cardiac Patient

Chapter 6: The Right Way and the Risky Way of Having Sex

Chapter 7: The Myths of Masturbation

Chapter 8: Stress and the Heart

Chapter 9: Extramarital Affairs and the Adrenaline Surge

Part III: Communication with Your Doctor and Your Partner

Chapter 10: How to Talk to Your Doctor

Chapter 11: Your Sexual Partner: Communication is Key

Chapter 12: A Conversation with Two Experts in the Field of Human Interaction

Part IV: What You Can Do

Chapter 13: Back to Bed: Rush versus Procrastination

Chapter 14: What to Do and When to Do It

Chapter 15: Erectile Dysfunction and the Heart

Chapter 16: Exercise, the Heart, and Sex

Chapter 17: Nutrition and Your Heart

Conclusion

Appendix A: Anatomy of a Heart Attack

Appendix B: Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Appendix C: Practical Tips on Commonly Used Cardiac Drugs

Resources

Glossary

About the Author

Index