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Infants who are born to obese mothers are at risk for obesity in childhood and adulthood, thus perpetuating the obesity epidemic. Researchers examined the effect of the intrauterine environment on obesity-related risk factors in 111 children (age range, 2–26 years) who were born to 49 obese women either before (54 children) or after (57 children) the mothers underwent biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) surgery for weight control at a single hospital in Canada. Surgery had been performed an average of 12 years earlier, and mothers had sustained a weight loss of about 36% of body weight. Average body-mass index (mean BMI, 30.7 kg/m2) was still in the obese range, however. Pregnancies before surgery were complicated by diabetes mellitus (7.7%), g…