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  From: vile <cvile@ozemail.com>
  To  : <richardhow@internode.on.net>
        <ilox@airnet.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:35:07 +1030

Re: [news[ computer time could be deadly

It dosent take much to prevent it from happening tho.. if i remeber rightly
isnt it 10 minute break every two hours?

"life is strange yes life is"

-vile
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard" <richardhow@internode.on.net>
To: "Ian Loxton" <ilox@airnet.com.au>
Cc: "linuxsa" <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: 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%255E17
02,00.html
> >
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