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We investigated whether long-term high-fat diet (HFD) feeding combined with NOS inhibition by L-NAME differentially remodels multiple organs during obesity progression. Male C57BL\/6J mice were fed chow, HFD (60% kcal from fat), or HFD supplemented with constitutive NOS inhibition by L-NAME (0.5\u2005g\/L drinking water) for 15 weeks. HFD increased body weight, cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial fibrosis, and circulating myeloid-cell expansion compared with chow-fed controls. In contrast, L-NAME supplementation did not further increase body weight, cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial fibrosis, or collagen type I\/type III ratio. Obesity-associated expansion of circulating neutrophils and inflammatory Ly6C\n                    <jats:sup>hi<\/jats:sup>\n                    monocytes was not observed in HFD\u2009+\u2009L-NAME mice, and instead, HFD\u2009+\u2009L-NAME selectively enhanced bone marrow remodeling, characterized by increased marrow adiposity and reduced trabecular bone volume. 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