Abstract

ASTUDILLO, Paula; EUGERCIOS ESCRIBANO, Héctor; JOU, Alicia  and  SOLAR, David. Chronic Venous Insufficiency in Workers without Risks Factors who Remain Long Hours Standing. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2016, vol.62, n.243, pp.141-156. ISSN 1989-7790.

The chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is a prevalent pathology in the today's society. The arising problems represent an important cause of economic costs and absenteeism in the workplace. Current working conditions, such as long working hours, standing for long periods of time, inadequate load weight as well as bad humidity and temperature conditions, contribute to the development of this pathology. In this essay, a systematic review of existing bibliography related to chronic venous insufficiency and standing up long time at working hours has been conducted. In order to determine the evidence level of the evaluated studies the criteria established by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) has been considered. In particular, a significant positive link between long period of time standing and a risk for suffering chronic venous insufficiency has been found. However, the existing literature is not specific enough to establish a threshold that determines the number of working hours required to be considered an extreme period of time standing. In order to determine if the chronic venous insufficiency should be considered an occupational disease, it is required to design and conduct further research on this topic. These studies are necessary to establish new evidence in order to make the society aware and generate new health prevention and promotion campaigns so that economic costs and quality of life could continue improving.

Keywords : Venous insufficiency; varicose veins; work; standing work; bipedalism.

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