See much television increases the risk of pulmonary embolism. . Photo: Shutterstock
Physical inactivity and sedentary lifestyle are responsible for many diseases and health complications
Now a new study published in the journal ‘Circulation’ of the American Association heart notes that look many hours of television increases the risk of pulmonary embolism, which can lead to premature death.
pulmonary embolism is a clot pulmonary blood, which usually starts in the leg or pelvis, as a result of physical inactivity and poor circulation. And when the clot breaks off, it can travel to the lung and staying in a small blood vessel, becoming really dangerous to the health of the sufferer.
Research
The work was conducted by Japanese researchers that between 1988 and 1990 asked 86,024 people from 40 to 79 years to report on the number of hours spent watching television. During the next 19 years, 59 participants died of a pulmonary embolism.
Analyzing the results of their responses to the study authors found that, compared with participants coming less than 2.5 hours of television , deaths from pulmonary embolism increased by 70% among those who spent watching TV from 2.5 to 4.9 hours; 40% for each additional two hours of watching television every day; and 2.5 times among those who watched TV more than five hours.
Hiroyasu Iso, labor leader and professor of Public Health at the School of Medicine, Osaka University noted that “embolism lung occurs at a slower pace in Japan that it does in Western countries, but may be increasing, “but warned it could go on the rise as” the Japanese are increasingly adopting sedentary lifestyles, we believe is which puts them at greater risk. “
Responsible
for researchers the risk is probably greater than what say their findings, as it is believed that deaths from pulmonary embolism are below -detectadas so difficult to their diagnosis. And point out that the most common symptoms are chest pain and difficulty breathing, which are the same symptoms that other complications that threaten life.
For the work they took into account other factors that could influence outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, smoking and hypertension. They found that obesity was the second cause of risk of pulmonary embolism behind television viewing.
In turn, the study authors said that new technologies will further enhance the dangers and results their work may be particularly relevant to countries like the United States, as “Today, with digital video transmission, the term ‘binge’ to describe the display of multiple episodes of TV shows in a single session has come to be popular “by Toru Shirakawa, another author of the study and researcher in Public Health at the School of Medicine at the University of Osaka, Shirakawa. Also warns that “this popularity may reflect a rapidly growing habit”.
