Lack of exercise and stationary life often have terrible consequences for your health, you have time to correct it.
A sedentary lifestyle is capable of causing the development of clots in the legs, which, in turn, are linked to 79% of cases of pulmonary embolism, a disorder responsible for 300,000 in-hospital deaths each year in the United States. With the purpose of reducing this index, Sanofi laboratories developed a questionnaire through which the doctor will be able to assess the patient’s risk of having a stroke in the lungs during the operation.
When you are sitting, the circulation in the legs is reduced by two thirds. This causes the blood to stagnate in the calves and this pressure usually damages the arterial walls.
To prevent bleeding on the outside of the damaged artery, small cells called platelets begin to accumulate around the weakened area. In this way, a protein called fibrin binds these and forms a clot.
In some cases, part of the clot emerges; This is called a plunger and can travel through the veins to the lungs and cause a stroke.
If the clot lodges in an artery in the lung and obstructs it, it will cause a pulmonary embolism. If the plunger is large enough to block one of the major arteries, it would have fatal results.