According to a new research, men who have sex at least twice a week reduce their chances of heart attack by almost half.

The study results revealed that men who regularly make love have a 45 percent lesser risk of developing any life-threatening heart condition in comparison to those who have sex once a month or even less.

The study involved 1,000 men and it suggests that sex seems to have a protective effect on the male heart. It did not examine the effect of making love on women’s heart.

The researchers who conducted this study are now urging doctors to assess the sexual activity for men while determining them for heart disease.

Heart attack remains the biggest killer in Britain and every year about 270,000 British people suffer a heart attack.

Sex has always proved to be beneficial for mental and physical health but very little scientific evidence is available to show the extent of benefits that sex can have on major diseases such as heart attack.

Scientists, in the latest study, tracked the sexual activity men aged 40 to 70 years participating in a long-term project called the Massachusetts Male Ageing Study.