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Monday, February 10, 2003
Computer Users, Please Stand Up - Kristen Philipkoski and Kim Griggs, Wired
For all those moms who have ever shouted, "Go outside and play!" at teens who sit for hours in dim rooms in front of the computer or TV, here's some more ammunition: Blood clots are afflicting chronic computer users who sit immobile for too long. Researchers say the malady is essentially the same as "economy class syndrome," and the story has the same moral: Exercise your limbs or risk suffering the effects of deep vein thrombosis. In the first known case of what New Zealand researchers have dubbed "eThrombosis," a 32-year-old man who spent up to 18 hours at his computer suffered a massive blood clot that caused him to black out.
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