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A vascular disease is severe and sometimes fatal pulmonary embolism, caused by an obstruction of the pulmonary arteries by blood clots, usually formed in the blood vessels of the lower limbs.
Toru Shirakawa, dellaa Osaka University (Japan), and colleagues completed a study lasting 18 years which involved 86.024 men and women aged between 40 and 79, who have self-reported how long they watched television all the days and who were followed for a mean of 18.4 years.
  
Deaths from pulmonary embolism have been identified from death certificates. Time spent watching television has been divided into three groups: less than 2.5 hours, from 2.5 to 4.9 hours and 5 or more hours a day.
The potentially fatal pulmonary embolism in relation to the time of exposure to television was calculated after adjustment for baseline age, sex, history of hypertension, history of diabetes, smoking status, body mass index, exercise habits, state of menopause. During the period of follow-up there were 59 deaths from pulmonary embolism. The researchers found that people who watched television for more than five hours a day had twice the risk of fatal pulmonary embolism than those who have looked for less than two hours and a half a day. The association was most evident in people under 60 years of age when watching television more than five hours a day was associated with a six times higher risk of fatal pulmonary embolism compared to see her less than two and a half hours a day.
 
Lead researcher commented: "We have shown that prolonged television viewing may be a behavior in risk of death from pulmonary embolism because of the immobility of the legs while watching television, that lasted for many days and many later in life, It can be fatal. "
 
Source: Worldhealth


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