Endocrine Abstracts

Obesity epidemic is one of the major concerns in the world. Worryingly, a high percentage of pregnant women have obesity, which could imply several consequences. Maternal obesity leads to different abnormalities in pregnancy and delivery. In addition, recent studies show that the offspring of obese mothers has an increased probability to suffer cardiovascular, metabolic and reproductive diseases. We have previously demonstrated that exposure to a high fat diet is related to ob...