{"id":558,"date":"2011-12-20T05:02:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T10:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2011-12-20T05:03:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T10:33:20","slug":"heart-patients-with-icds-more-likely-to-face-sexual-dysfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/heart-patients-with-icds-more-likely-to-face-sexual-dysfunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Patients With ICD&#8217;s More Likely To Face Sexual Dysfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to research which was presented at the 2011 American Heart  Association&#8217;s Scientific Sessions, some heart patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Shock-To-the-heart.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-559\" title=\"Shock To the heart\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Shock-To-the-heart-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"heart\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Shock-To-the-heart.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Shock-To-the-heart.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Shock-To-the-heart.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>implanted  cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) were likely to suffer from sexual  related problems due to their heightened fear of the ICD delivering a  shock during sex. ICD is a device that delivers a shock the moment it  detects a irregular heartbeat that it deems dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Men were  more likey to feel the effects of mild erectile dysfunction due the  anxiety caused by this fear but both women and men had lower sexual  function scores due to shock related anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>One way to help  heart patients with ICD&#8217;s who feel apprehensive about this problems is  to give appropriate counselling, both before and after the implanting of  the device. This will help alleviate the stress levels that these  individual feel which is the main cause of them suffering from sexual  dysfunction. So if you are one of those patients who are facing this  problem, then consult with your doctor or a qualified sexologist to get  guidance on how not to let the fear of the shock take away the pleasure  of sex from your life.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about this research in this article <a href=\"\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/11\/111114111809.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to research which was presented at the 2011 American Heart Association&#8217;s Scientific Sessions, some heart patients with implanted cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) were likely to suffer from sexual related problems due to their heightened fear of the ICD delivering a shock during sex. ICD is a device that delivers a shock the moment it detects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,63],"tags":[16,7,21,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-erectile-dysfunction-2","7":"category-sexual-health-2","8":"tag-ed","9":"tag-erectile-dysfunction","10":"tag-heart-disease","11":"tag-sex-problems","12":"entry","13":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}