Office Employees Have A Risk Of Blood Clots

Research conducted by Professor Richard Beasley Medical Research Institute in Wellington found that a third of hospital patients who suffered deep vein thrombosis (DVT) were office workers who spend time in front of the computer.

Some 34 percent of the 62 samples that had blood clots in people who are long-term work by sitting in a chair, while another 21 percent of patients with recent long-distance travel by plane, a daily paper published by the New Zealand Herald.

DVT is the formation of blood clots in the veins in, most often in the legs.

Clumps can be moved 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 planes traveling long distance, but not free to stretch their limbs are most at risk.

The study found a lump that occurs in 10 percent of passengers who have a high risk.

Beasley said some office workers who experience lumps, to sit for 14 hours a day.

Some of them even every three to four hours did not move from the chair, he said.

The problem is most common in the information technology industry and the service center via telephone, he said.