Managing blood sugar levels are vital for this condition. Learn about lifestyle changes to lower the risk and treatments for it.
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Type 2 diabetes in children
More children are being diagnosed with this blood sugar condition. Learn how to help manage or prevent this chronic disease in your child.
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Vascular dementia
Learn more about this stroke-related type of dementia that causes memory loss and reasoning problems. Prevention is possible, and good heart health is key.
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Ventricular septal defect (VSD)
In this heart problem present at birth, there is a hole between the two lower heart chambers. Know the symptoms and when surgery is needed.
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Vitamin deficiency anemia
A lack of folate and vitamin B-12 can cause a type of anemia in which red blood cells become too large and can't carry oxygen properly.
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Voice disorders
Learn more about the causes of common voice disorders, such as laryngitis and granuloma, and how Mayo Clinic diagnoses and treats them.
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Von Willebrand disease
Learn more about the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment of this inherited bleeding disorder in which blood doesn't clot well.
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Wet macular degeneration
Blurred vision or blind spots could be a sign of this eye disorder. Recognizing the warning signs could save your vision.
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Whipple's disease
Learn more about the symptoms, causes and treatment of this rare primarily digestive infection.
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Wilson's disease
This inherited disease causes copper to build up in vital organs, especially the liver, brain and eyes. It's treatable when caught early.
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Zenker's diverticulum
Find out the symptoms of this condition, how it causes a bulge to form in the tube that connects the throat to the stomach and treatments.