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  From: Richard <richardhow@internode.on.net>
  To  : Ian Loxton <ilox@airnet.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:27:01 +1030

Re: [news[ computer time could be deadly

The syndrome was first documented in people who sat in deckchairs for too long
in air raid shelters during the bombing of London in WW2, according to
the BBC.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:58:51PM +1030, Ian Loxton wrote:
> The Advertiser writes:
> "Long hours at computer 'deadly'
> 
> 29jan03
> 
> THE next time your boss asks you to put in a few extra hours at your
> desk - remind him it could be deadly.
> 
> New Zealand researchers have found that sitting at a computer for hours
> on end can cause fatal blood clots, just as long flights can lead to
> deep vein thrombosis (DVT), known as economy-class syndrome. 
> 
> They discovered the link when a 32-year-old man who sat at his computer
> terminal for up to 18 hours a day nearly died after he developed a blood
> clot in his leg which travelled to his lungs. 
> 
> "This is the first reported case of an association between repeated
> prolonged immobility sitting at a computer and life-threatening (lung
> embolism)," wrote the researchers led by Richard Beasley from the
> Wellington-based Medical Research Institute of New Zealand. 
> 
> They suggest the condition be called "e-thrombosis". 
> "
> http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,5907075%255E1702,00.html
> 
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