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What is Gestational Diabetes?

Gestational diabetes (pronounced jess-TAY-shun-ul die-uh-BEET-eez) is a type of high blood sugar that can develop during pregnancy. If a woman has never had high blood sugar before she was pregnant, she has gestational diabetes.1 In the United States, between 2 and 10 percent of pregnancies are affected by gestational diabetes every year.2 

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