Increased Risk of e-Thrombosis in e-Life Era

摘要

With the COVID-19 Pandemic, significant differences continue to emerge in modern life, and new problems arise as a result of the gross measures taken. The way of learning, communicating and working have changed leading to an almost virtual existence. Social distancing was one of the first concepts that was developed, implicating a shade of sympathy, but after a year of experience, its meaning was transformed to desolate existence. With the shifting pattern of this living, an overt increase was observed in the incidence of dementia, depression and anxiety.1Eating patternsincluding stressful eating, prolonged seated position during work and education shall alert us for thrombotic events as Beasley and coworkers have described as “e-thrombosis” for the first time in 2003.2 At that time, they have reported concerns for the increasing use of computers for both entertainment purposes (computer games, etc.) and sitting inactively for hours might dramatically increase the epidemiological burden of thrombosis. To supportthis perspective, they have presented a case of a 32-year-old with acute pulmonary thromboembolism after sitting in front of a computer consistently for 18 hours.2 The perspective of such immobility may trigger thrombosis is consistent with the timeless Virchow’s Triad (abnormal blood constituents, abnormal vessel wall, abnormal blood flow), which Rudolf Virchow has defined in the 19th century.