No direct effect of maternal obesity on heart development (1)

14 Aug 2019


A Finnish study, published in Diabetes Medicine, reports that maternal obesity and gestational diabetes do increase adiposity and cardiovascular risk in children, but not through a direct effect on cardiac development.

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