So standing is a rick factor for the development of varicose veins.
However.
If you are standing at a desk you are most likely going to be making micro changes to your stance throughout which will act as a muscular pump, returning blood to your heart and reducing the venous pressure in your legs.
Surgeons for example are not at significantly higher risk than the average person for development of varicose veins because they are generally making small movements fairly consistently.
A guard in a pillbox outside Windsor castle, on the other hand, would be at a higher risk because he is not supposed to be making the micromovements that will return the blood and reduce venous pressure, potentially causing valvular incompetence and dilated superficial leg veins specially if predisposed genetically.
Source: med student, asked lecturers about this specifically and have talked to numerous surgeons.
And as someone in the article mentioned, using compression stockings would obviate any concerns that a person may have
I know it's a sample of 1, but the female barber I visited the last time does in fact have visible varicose veins. The male barber wasn't wearing stockings.
Surgeons for example are not at significantly higher risk than the average person for development of varicose veins because they are generally making small movements fairly consistently. A guard in a pillbox outside Windsor castle, on the other hand, would be at a higher risk because he is not supposed to be making the micromovements that will return the blood and reduce venous pressure, potentially causing valvular incompetence and dilated superficial leg veins specially if predisposed genetically.
Source: med student, asked lecturers about this specifically and have talked to numerous surgeons.
And as someone in the article mentioned, using compression stockings would obviate any concerns that a person may have