Are Varicose Veins Inherited?

Do You Have Your Mother’s Legs?

Varicose veins may be hereditary. This picture demonstrates a mother and daughter who have the same distribution of varicose veins.

One of the strongest risk factors for varicose veins is a family history. We often see mothers and their daughters, fathers, and sons, siblings, and sometimes the entire family for similar varicose vein issues. This picture demonstrates a mother and her daughter with ironically the same varicose vein pattern of distribution. Don’t want your mother’s legs? Stay on top of your vein condition and have them treated or maintenance treatment to avoid bulging varicosities.