Vascular Surgeon Bergen County

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Healthy veins are essential to living. They work alongside our arteries to carry blood throughout the body and back to the heart. Our circulatory system does this a million times over in a lifetime. A healthy vein can easily manage the return of the blood back up to the heart, against gravity through the use of one-way valves. As we age there is a decrease in our vein elasticity and the valves become ineffective.