Pregnancy Obesity Alters Fetal Liver Epigenetics and Metabolic Pathways

Could a mother’s diet and excess weight during pregnancy predispose her offspring to become obese and develop metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases later in life? U.S. researchers report on new molecular and genetic studies in baboons that support existing epidemiological evidence suggesting that maternal obesity (MO) may "preprogram" offspring to develop cardiometabolic diseases in adulthood by causing changes in key metabolic pathways in the developing fetal liver. The results