Dedicated to serving individuals and their families in Washington state affected by bleeding disorders including (but not restricted to) Factor VIII and Factor IX hemophilia and von Willebrands Disease.
Dedicated to finding better treatments and cures for bleeding and clotting disorders and to preventing the complications of these disorders through education, advocacy and research.
The most common bleeding disorder in women and girls is von Willebrand disease, an inherited disorder that affects up to 3% of the population, or approximately 2.6 million people. Half of these people are women.
Unlike haemophilia, von Willebrand disease is not gender-related. So the effect is the same regardless of whether the defective von Willebrand factor (vWF) is passed down from the mother or father. It also makes no difference whether the child is a boy or girl; the disease shows up in the same way.
Providing Information on von Willebrand's Disease and Links to von Willebrand's & Hemophilia Web Pages
BLEEDING DISORDERS
for women, men, & children
hemophilia, von Willebrands Disease, bleeding disorders, Laboratory Medicine, inherited diseases, Washington,
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