Confirming what many have suspected. A little bit of exercise can go a long way.
Women who spend most of their time sitting down when they get home from work may be more likely to get a potentially fatal blood clot on the lungs than those who are more active, according to new research.
The big study, carried out on nurses in the USA, is the first to show that a sedentary lifestyle can lead to pulmonary embolism‚ where a blood clot travels up from the deep veins in the leg and eventually into the lung. The symptoms include chest pain, difficulty breathing and coughing.
It is already known that people who play sport and are physically more active are less likely to suffer pulmonary embolism, but the study published on the website of the British Medical Journal is the first to show that sitting about raises the risk.
