Abstract
Sauna bathing: a warm heart proves beneficial.
Highlights
For patients with cardiovascular pathologies, it is still considered by many physicians that they should avoid sauna bathing
In 2008, mortality in saunas was described in a Swedish study performed between 1993 and 2002; it turned out that in 77 casualties, 34 (44 %) of these deaths were related to alcohol and 18 (23 %) to cardiovascular diseases [5]
Recent research published in the February 2015 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine evaluated the cardiovascular effects of sauna bathing by performing a large prospective study in male sauna bathers [11]
Summary
For patients with cardiovascular pathologies, it is still considered by many physicians (and their patients) that they should avoid sauna bathing. In 2008, mortality in saunas was described in a Swedish study performed between 1993 and 2002; it turned out that in 77 casualties, 34 (44 %) of these deaths were related to alcohol and 18 (23 %) to cardiovascular diseases [5]. More recent studies have shown that cardiovascular patients with essential hypertension, coronary heart disease, or postmyocardial infarction, who are stable and relatively asymptomatic in their everyday life, may take sauna baths without undue risk [7–10].
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