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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Blood clot risk identified for computer workers (and contesters?)
From: jjreisert@alum.mit.edu (Jim Reisert AD1C)
Date: Mon Jun 16 12:47:34 2003
The attached article is interesting (though 6 months old).  While it's OK to
"stay in the chair", please get up and stretch every now and then.

73 - Jim AD1C

  http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/health/story/0,4395,172603,00.html

"WELLINGTON (New Zealand) -- People who spend long hours sitting in front of a
computer screen risk developing life-threatening blood clots, medical
researchers warned. 

"Dubbed 'e-Thrombosis', the disorder was reported in the European Respiratory
Journal by a group of researchers who described a 32-year-old man who almost
died after developing a massive blood clot that formed in his leg veins and
travelled to his lungs. 

"The man spent up to 18 hours a day working at his computer, the report said. "


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