tycoonjack
01-29-2003, 07:18 PM
Your computer could be killing you (http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/01/27/daily44.html)
Sitting at a computer for long periods of time could kill you, according to a new study reported in the February 2003 edition of the European Respiratory Journal.
It says there is a risk of developing life-threatening blood clots from sitting for long periods at a computer, similar to a problem that has injured or killed some airline passengers on long flights.
The report centers on a case from New Zealand in which a young man who spent up to 18 hours a day sitting at his computer nearly died after developing a massive blood clot that formed in his leg veins, broke off and traveled to his lungs, a condition called pulmonary embolism.
This story just screams for one of those local teasers that they run, "Something in your house could be killing you, find out what today at 6 on News 9, you non-killing you news source."
Sitting at a computer for long periods of time could kill you, according to a new study reported in the February 2003 edition of the European Respiratory Journal.
It says there is a risk of developing life-threatening blood clots from sitting for long periods at a computer, similar to a problem that has injured or killed some airline passengers on long flights.
The report centers on a case from New Zealand in which a young man who spent up to 18 hours a day sitting at his computer nearly died after developing a massive blood clot that formed in his leg veins, broke off and traveled to his lungs, a condition called pulmonary embolism.
This story just screams for one of those local teasers that they run, "Something in your house could be killing you, find out what today at 6 on News 9, you non-killing you news source."