Venous diseases are favorable for both men and women. The causes can be problems such as hormonal imbalance, sedentary lifestyle and obesity, for example. However, generally speaking, men pay less attention to their physical health compared to women. Some symptoms are alert to frames in which varicose veins can get worse and become a risk.
Usually, varicose veins are dilated and tortuous and appear more in the lower limbs. They can be a sign of circulation problems. sanguine. Although they are a nuisance in physical appearance, their symptoms are usually mild. Because of this, people, especially men, delay looking for a specialist to treat the situation.
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“The big difference between men and women, in these cases, is that the man understands that the problems of varicose veins and spider veins are something aesthetic. Normally, when they come to the office, the venous disease is already advanced, they only show up when they have large varicosities and are always brought by women”, says the vascular surgeon and angiologist Dr. Tatiana Losada.
In addition to large varicose veins, small vessels, also in the lower limbs, are a warning sign of vascular health problems.
“Unfortunately men always understand it as something aesthetic and it is not. So, this ends up being the big warning: that men think they only have venous disease when they have very large varicosities and, even so, some still understand that it is aesthetic”, says Tatiana.
Although many people link varicose veins only to aesthetic problems, this disease can also bring other health problems, such as swelling, pain, fatigue and even thrombosis. According to a survey recently carried out by the Brazilian Society of Angiology and Surgery Vascular (SBACV), more than 425,000 Brazilians needed to be hospitalized for treatment of thrombosis venous.
Between January 2012 and May 2022, the survey also pointed out that every day, on average, 113 people needed hospitalization in the public network to take care of the problem. The year with the most records for venous thrombosis was 2019, with 45,216 notifications.
To avoid varicose veins, it is important to take care of your body. It is essential to maintain a fiber-rich diet, exercise and avoid standing or sitting for a long time so that blood circulation travels correctly.
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