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Learn about binge eating disorder, including how it is treated and how it affects women, from the Office on Women’s Health.

Complications of pregnancy are health problems that can occur during pregnancy. They can involve the mother's health, the baby's health, or both.

Learn the ways that stroke affects women differently than men.

Slideshow of women’s unique risk factors for heart disease.

Learn when you should get tested for gestational diabetes, which tests you may receive, and how to prepare for each test.

Gestational diabetes often has no, or very mild, symptoms. Hormonal changes in pregnancy, extra weight, or a family history of diabetes also may play a role.

Learn what you can do before you become pregnant to help prevent gestational diabetes by losing extra weight if you need to and being more physically active.

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

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

Discusses gestational diabetes and how to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes later in life and keep your child from becoming obese or developing type 2 diabetes.