Employees of the Office of Risk Got More Blood Clots
4-2007
Research carried out Professor Richard Beasley of the Medical Research Institute in Wellington found that a third of hospital patients who had deep vein thrombosis (DVT) were office workers who spent time at the computer.
A total of 34 percent of the 62 samples that had a blood clot is a person who for a long time to work by sitting in a chair, while 21 percent of patients had recently traveled long distances by plane, newspaper published by the New Zealand Herald.
DVT is the formation of blood clots in the veins, most commonly in the legs.
Clots can travel to the heart, lungs or brain, causing chest pain, shortness of breath or even death from heart attack or stroke.
The condition is commonly called economy class syndrome because of passenger aircraft to travel long distances, but not free to relax their limbs are most at risk.
The study found that clots occurred in 10 percent of passengers who have a high risk.
Beasley said some office workers who experience lumps, sitting for 14 hours a day.
Some of them even every three to four hours of not getting out of chairs, he said.
The problem is most prevalent in the information technology industry as well as a telephone service center, he said.
Sources: Gatra
4-2007
Research carried out Professor Richard Beasley of the Medical Research Institute in Wellington found that a third of hospital patients who had deep vein thrombosis (DVT) were office workers who spent time at the computer.
A total of 34 percent of the 62 samples that had a blood clot is a person who for a long time to work by sitting in a chair, while 21 percent of patients had recently traveled long distances by plane, newspaper published by the New Zealand Herald.
DVT is the formation of blood clots in the veins, most commonly in the legs.
Clots can travel to the heart, lungs or brain, causing chest pain, shortness of breath or even death from heart attack or stroke.
The condition is commonly called economy class syndrome because of passenger aircraft to travel long distances, but not free to relax their limbs are most at risk.
The study found that clots occurred in 10 percent of passengers who have a high risk.
Beasley said some office workers who experience lumps, sitting for 14 hours a day.
Some of them even every three to four hours of not getting out of chairs, he said.
The problem is most prevalent in the information technology industry as well as a telephone service center, he said.
Sources: Gatra