Binge-watchers beware: It could kill you. A new study published in the journal Circulation found that the inactivity it takes to fly through a TV show could raise the risk of death from a blood clot in the lungs.
For every additional two hours spent watching television per day, the risk of deadly pulmonary embolism — or blod clot in the lungs — rose by 40 percent, the researchers found. For those who watched more than five hours of TV per day, the risk rose by 2.5 times.
Researchers spoke with more than 86,000 participants in Japan between the ages of 40 and 79 and asked how much TV they watched each day. They then tracked how many participants died of pulmonary embolism over the next 19 years, while tracking how many hours of TV the participants watched.
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