Microbiome and pregnancy: focus on microbial dysbiosis coupled with maternal obesity

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Obesity is becoming a worldwide pandemic with over one billion people affected. Of women in the United States, who are of childbearing age, two-thirds of them are considered overweight/obese. Offspring of women with obesity have a greater likelihood of developing cardiometabolic disease later in life, therefore making obesity a transgenerational issue. Emerging topics such as maternal microbial dysbiosis with...

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