LawMeme LawMeme Yale Law School  
LawMeme
Search LawMeme [ Advanced Search ]
 
 
 
 
e-thrombosis
Posted by Paul Szynol on Wednesday, January 29 @ 16:30:18 EST Oddities
Chronic computer use may be deadly, Business Journal reports. A New Zealand man who spent about 18 hrs/day in front of his computer developed a blood clot and almost died of pulmonary embolism.

Incidentally, in the US over half a million cases of pulmonary embolism occur each year; it is fatal in about 10% of the cases. The cause, in other words, may have been something entirely independent of sitting still for prolonged periods of time.

Nevertheless, you might want to get up and stretch once in a while.

 
Login
Nickname

Password

Don't have an account yet? You can create one. As a registered user you have some advantages like theme manager, comments configuration and post comments with your name.
Related Links
· Business Journal reports
· More about Oddities
· News by Paul Szynol


Most read story about Oddities:
Turing Universal Machine Threat to All Mankind

Options

Printer Friendly Page  Printer Friendly Page

Send to a Friend  Send to a Friend
"User's Login" | Login/Create an Account | 1 comment | Search Discussion
Threshold
  
The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.

Re: e-thrombosis (Score: 0)
by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Thursday, January 30 @ 14:04:57 EST
I started taking a Tai Chi class a couple weeks ago. The threat of thrombosis (need we put "e" in front of everything?) makes me glad I did. I can just get up every now and again, run through the forms, then go back to work. It'll stretch out a good portion of my body and get the blood flowing again. I highly recommend something along these lines for everyone with a sit-down job, even if it is just a little stretching.


[ Reply to This ]

"User's Login" | Login/Create an Account | 1 comment | Search Discussion
Threshold
  
The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.


Leges humanae nascuntur, vivunt, moriuntur
Human laws are born, live, and die

All stories, comments and submissions copyright their respective posters.
Everything Else Copyright (c) 2002 by the Information Society Project.
This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).
You can syndicate our news using backend.php