SITUATION OF LOWER EXTREMITY CHRONIC VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY AMONG GARMENT WORKERS IN THAI BINH PROVINCE
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The study was conducted on 400 garment workers of 4 garment companies in Thai Binh by the descriptive method through a cross-sectional survey with an aim to describe the status and clinical and subclinical characteristics of chronic venous insufficiency. lower extremities in workers in some Thai Binh garment companies. Results: The proportion of lower extremity chronic venous insufficiency in the study group was 75.3%; The difference in the prevalence of lower extremity chronic venous insufficiency was statistically significant between the groups of gender, working position and career age. The percentage of lower extremity chronic venous insufficiency among the group of workers with working age under 5 years accounted for 63.2% and up to 82.8% in the age group of 15 years or more. Workers who work regularly in the standing position had a higher incidence of lower extremity chronic venous insufficiency than those who frequently worked in the sitting position (86.7% and 68.9%). Most of the male workers had no or only 1-2 clinical symptoms, the percentage of having 3 or more symptoms was higher in female workers than that of male workers, the difference was statistically significant with p< 0.05. The results of classifying lower extremity chronic venous insufficiency according to the CEAP scale of workers from C0 to C3, the highest proportion in the study were workers in clinical class C1 (61.8%); No patients with lower extremity chronic venous insufficiency were found in CEAP grades from C4. The average VCSS score of workers with chronic venous insufficiency of the lower extremities was 3.69 ± 1.08 points
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Garment workers, Lower extremity chronic venous insufficiency, Thai Binh
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