Because our job is to take care of vein problems, we talk a lot about what goes wrong with veins. Today we thought we’d share some fun facts about what goes right with the body’s blood vessels—which include the veins, arteries, and capillaries.
They’re pretty amazing when you think about it. For one thing, your system of blood vessels is vast—if each blood vessel in your body were laid out in one long line, it would stretch to more than 60,000 miles long.
The system is kind of like a tree, with the main arteries and veins representing the trunk and smaller veins and arteries...
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