Workoholiques (anonymes ou non): ATTENTION!

Travailler trop (à votre bureau, ou chez vous, confortablement installés devant/ derrière votre ordinateur n'est pas sain, c'est connu!
Le dernier diagnostic (sémantique) en date, révélé par l'intéressant "WORD SPY", est en effet celui de la e-thrombosis, formation de caillots de sang provoquée par une position assise prolongée devant/ derrière un ordinateur. Voir aussi ici et là.

Exemples de citations récentes de [e-thrombosis]:

Office workers risk being struck down by deep vein thrombosis if they sit at their computer screens for long periods without a break, health experts said yesterday. The warning came as it emerged that a computer programmer from Bristol almost died after a 12-hour stint in front of his screen in what is believed to be one of the first cases in the UK of a growing phenomenon dubbed e-thrombosis.

Steven Morris, "Immobile office workers given DVT warning," The Guardian, 9 mai 2006

Spending all day at your desk and most of the evening in front of a computer could kill you, doctors warned yesterday. They have identified a new form of deep vein thrombosis called e-thrombosis, which can cause fatal blood clots.

"Desk job can kill," Melbourne Herald Sun, 22 avril 2006.