Porter, Quinn: Adaptive Capacity and Exposure Load in Maternal Cardiac Remodeling

Maternal cardiac remodeling during pregnancy is a structured physiological process that supports increased circulatory demand while preserving functional stability and enabling postpartum recovery. This process can be described in terms of the interaction between intrinsic adaptive capacity and exposure load. Intrinsic adaptive capacity reflects the system’s ability to generate and sustain coordinated structural and functional change, supported by mitochondrial energetics, transcriptional regula