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Maternal high fat feeding and obesity influences on offspring cardiac outcomes. A maternal high fat diet and obesity compromises the maternal phenotype and exposes the fetal offspring to an unfavorable intrauterine milieu. This prompts structural and functional cardiac alterations in offspring through conferrance of undesirable metabolic sequalae thereby increasing their risk for cardiovascular disease.
