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GLUCOSE REGULATION AND UTILIZATION IN THE BODY 209<br />

A YouTube element has been excluded from this version of the text. You can view it online here: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/<br />

nutritionscience/?p=93<br />

Video: “Obesity <strong>and</strong> Type 2 Diabetes (HBO: The Weight of the Nation)”, by HBO Docs, YouTube (May<br />

14, 2012), 15:20 minutes.<br />

Gestational diabetes:<br />

Gestational diabetes is diabetes that develops during pregnancy in women that did not<br />

previously have diabetes. It affects approximately 6 percent of pregnancies in the U.S. It<br />

can cause pregnancy complications, mostly associated with excess fetal growth because of<br />

high blood glucose. Although it usually goes away once the baby is born, women who have

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