What are spider veins or spider vein varicose veins?

However, recent studies indicate that around 60 percent of German adults have spider veins with varying degrees of severity – with no significant differences between the sexes. The number of years of life also increases the incidence of spider veins. But they can basically affect anyone – whether young or old, fat or thin, male or female. A brushwood broom can cover entire areas of the upper and lower leg, although the individual spider veins are usually only a few centimetres long. Although spider veins are harmless in most cases, they can occasionally be an indication of a deeper vein disease. They occur in both men and women. Experts have long assumed that the majority of those affected are women. As a rule, they occur locally on the legs, particularly on the thighs, the lower legs, the backs of the knees and in the ankle region. If the skin veins on the face become enlarged, telangiectasias (Couperose) are not spider veins.