The nurse is reviewing the risk factors for venous disease. Which of these situations best describes a person at highest risk for the development of venous disease?

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Efficient venous return depends on contracting skeletal muscles, competent valves in the veins, and a patent lumen. Problems with any of these three elements lead to venous stasis. People who undergo prolonged standing, sitting, or bed rest are at risk for venous disease because they do not benefit from the milking action to the veins that walking accomplishes. Hypercoagulable (not anticoagulated) states and vein wall trauma also place the person at risk for venous disease. Obesity and multiple pregnancies are also risk factors. Smoking is a risk factor for arterial disease, not venous disease

The Nurse Is Reviewing the Risk Factors for Venous Disease