The truth about VARICOSE VEINS
Mar 18, 2020
2 minutes
WORDS: TANYA PEAREY.
The causes
Healthy veins take blood from our feet and legs – where it has taken vital oxygen and nutrients – to the heart. But because it’s working against gravity, the blood will try to flow the wrong way.
This is prevented by one-way valves that open and close to let blood through. ‘Varicose veins occur when the small valves in our leg veins fail,’ says Professor Mark Whiteley,
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