LEP and Obesity: Longitudinal sections through hearts of WT, WT + HFD and LepRdb/db mice are shown in Figure 1A, representative M-mode echocardiography recordings in Figure 1B and cardiac cross-sections after WGA staining to delineate cardiomyocyte borders in Figure 1C. Of note, adiposity in mice with LepR deficiency was more pronounced compared to age-matched WT + HFD mice (Table 1; P < 0.001), in which obesity develops as result of hypothalamic resistance to chronically elevated leptin levels [26].