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Knowing your body mass index (BMI) and waist size help tell if you are at a normal or healthy weight, are overweight, or have obesity.

Learn how healthy eating and physical activity may help you lose weight. Eating healthy foods and being physically active may help you stay at a healthy weight.

Many factors can affect your weight, leading to overweight, obesity, or extreme obesity. Being overweight or having obesity may lead to certain health problems.

Learn about treatments for overweight and obesity, including healthy eating, physical activity, weight-loss medicines, weight-loss devices, bariatric surgery.

Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy. Learn more about how gestational diabetes can affect the mother and the baby.

Learn how to manage your gestational diabetes through healthy eating and physical activity. You may also need to use insulin.

Describes rare forms of diabetes that result from mutations in a single gene. Discusses diagnosis, genetic testing, and counseling.

Learn about type 1 diabetes and its causes, diagnosis, and treatment. You can’t prevent type 1 diabetes, but you can manage it with insulin and healthy habits.

Learn about the symptoms of type 2 diabetes, what causes the disease, how it’s diagnosed, and steps you can take to help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.

Overview of hemodialysis treatment for kidney failure, including information on home and in-center dialysis, preparation, vascular access, and complications.