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Four steps to help people with diabetes understand, monitor, and manage diabetes. Explains diabetes ABCs and ways to stay healthy and control the disease.
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Describes how abdominal adhesions form. Explains their causes and how they can lead to intestinal obstruction.
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Learn how to use the Body Weight Planner, which helps adults set their personal physical activity and calorie goals.
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Describes symptoms, causes, and treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a condition in which acid reflux leads to symptoms or complications.
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Overview of symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of gastroesophageal reflux (GER), or acid reflux, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in children.
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Overview of symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of gastroesophageal reflux (GER), or acid reflux, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in infants.
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Explains the causes of acquired cystic kidney disease (ACKD), a common condition in people with kidney failure who are treated with dialysis.
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Overview of acromegaly, a disorder that occurs when the body makes too much growth hormone over a long period of time.
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Describes adrenal insufficiency, or Addison’s disease, and secondary adrenal insufficiency and the role of the adrenal hormones cortisol and aldosterone.
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Describes Alagille syndrome, a rare, inherited disorder that affects the liver. Covers the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and long-term outlook.
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Defines albuminuria and discusses who is at risk. Reviews the signs of albuminuria and provides information about testing procedures and treatment options.
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Overview of amyloidosis, a condition where abnormal proteins called amyloid build up in organs and tissues, and how the condition affects the kidneys.
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Learn about problems of the lower GI tract, such as anorectal malformation, colonic atresia, malrotation, intussusception, fistula, prolapse, and volvulus.
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Overview of anemia in people with chronic kidney disease, a common complication in people with advanced kidney disease.
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Overview of anemia of inflammation, also called anemia of chronic disease, a type of anemia that affects people who have conditions that cause inflammation.
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Overview of anti-GBM disease, a rare autoimmune disorder that affects the kidneys and lungs and can be fatal if not treated promptly.
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Learn about aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndromes, rare disorders that affect bone marrow and blood, including symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
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Learn about the causes, symptoms, and diagnosis of appendicitis, a digestive system infection treated with surgery or antibiotics.
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A doctor provides an overview of kidney disease medications and their relation to other conditions, such as high blood pressure.
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Learn how an artificial pancreas system can automatically control blood glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes.
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Discusses symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of autoimmune hepatitis, a disease in which your immune system attacks the liver, causing inflammation and damage.
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Overview of autonomic neuropathy—damage to nerves that control your internal organs, including your heart, digestive system, bladder, eyes, and sex organs.
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Overview of Barrett’s esophagus, including the causes and association with GERD, as well as symptoms, treatments, complications, diet, and self-care.
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Read about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of biliary atresia, a condition in infants in which bile ducts are scarred and blocked, leading to liver damage.
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Overview of binge eating disorder—how common it is, who is most likely to develop it, related health problems, symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
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Learn about the causes, symptoms, and diagnosis of bladder control problems and bedwetting in children. Treatments may include home care, alarms, and medicine.
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Learn about one of the most common bladder control problems, urinary incontinence, which is a condition that involves the accidental loss or leaking of urine.
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An overview of bladder infection in adults, which is a type of urinary tract infection. Describes symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
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An overview of bladder infection in children, which is a type of urinary tract infection. Describes symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
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Use the body mass index (BMI) calculator.
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Read about causes, diagnosis, and treatment of bowel control problems including information on diet and nutrition, and fecal incontinence in children.
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A doctor explains that kidney damage caused by chronic kidney disease (CKD) is usually permanent, and how kidney treatment works to prevent further damage.
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Learn about the two most common causes of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adults—diabetes and high blood pressure—as well as other causes of CKD in adults.
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Describes symptoms, causes, and treatment of celiac disease, a condition in which the immune system reacts abnormally to gluten, damaging the small intestine.
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Outlines four stages of changing old habits to new healthier ones and offers ways to help improve eating and physical activity habits.
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The USDA MyPlate website offers tips and resources to help you create a healthier eating style that meets your individual needs and improves your health.
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Find tips for how to choose a safe and successful weight-loss program, including what to look for in a program and what questions to ask.
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Defines chronic diarrhea and discusses causes, possible complications, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of chronic diarrhea in children.
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Overview of chronic kidney disease (CKD), including definition, causes, tests and diagnosis, managing CKD, eating right with CKD, and preventing CKD.
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Overview of the tests used to diagnose kidney disease, including the blood and urine tests for glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and urine albumin.
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Overview of cirrhosis, a condition in which your liver is scarred and permanently damaged. Describes causes, symptoms, complications, diagnosis, and treatment.
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Learn about clinical trials in diabetes and explore clinical trials that are currently open and recruiting. Read about NIDDK-supported research projects.
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Learn why doctors perform colonoscopies, what it can show, how you prepare for it, what to expect during and after colonoscopy, and the risks of colonoscopy.
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Colon polyps are common in American adults. Learn the symptoms and causes of colon polyps, and how doctors diagnose and treat them.
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Describes long-term and short-term constipation, its complications, symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
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Describes long-term and short-term constipation in children, its complications, symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
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Learn how continuous glucose monitors work, the different types of CGM devices, and how they help people with diabetes keep glucose levels in a healthy range.
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Managing diabetes can be challenging and stressful, but it is possible. Learn about how other people living with diabetes cope with the disease.
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Discusses risk factors, symptoms, diagnostic procedures, and complications of Crohn’s disease. Provides treatment options, including medications and surgery.
