Background: The number of people suffering from varicose vein is continuously increasing, showing an average increase of 4.36% every year. This figure is higher than the average rate of increase in total diseases, which marks as 3.61% in the same period. Varicose vein is a chronic vein disease, which progresses continuously and possibly develop other various complications.
Methods: This study was conducted by examining 759 outpatients for 7 months at a varicose vein medical institution, located in Busan. Logistic regression was applied to analyze the relevance between the subjective symptoms of patients and venous reflux.
Results: Those feeling heaviness were 3.23 times (95% CI=1.65∼6.32) more likely to receive venous reflux diagnosis of varicose vein than those who do not, and those experiencing night cramp were 2.27 times (95% CI=1.28∼4.03) more likely to get the venous reflux.
Conclusion: The subjective symptoms of patients can be an indicator of the presence of an actual venous reflux. Thus, reinforcement of mediation actions such as education and campaigns to raise awareness of varicose vein is seen to be needed.

Keywords: Varicose vein, Venous reflux, Heaviness, Night cramp, Subjective symptom