If you have venous insufficiency does that mean you are more likely to get blood clots ? like a dvt ?

Yes: venous insufficiency means the blood does not keep moving in your veins towards the heart (veins have valves that prevent the blood from going backward). Clotting inside our blood vessels happens under 3 circumstances: 1) slow blood movement or velocity 2) abnormal blood composition like abnormal cell, toxins etc 3) roughened inner surface (called: intima) of the blood vessel like in people with a

Dvt: Having varicose veins does not increase your risk for dvt Occasionally a superficial vein if traumatized can clot but this is also rare

Blood clots and CVI.: Venous insufficiency does not put you at increased risk to develop DVT but DVT does put you at increased risk to develop chronic venous insufficiency. Venous insufficiency is a result of malfunctioning of venous valves in the superficial, deep or perforating system of veins. Malfunctioning venous vlaves does not cause clotting.