Weight loss

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• Synonyms

  • Cachexia
  • Wasting away

• Causes

  • Anorexia
  • Malignancy
  • Thyrotoxicosis
  • Type I diabetes mellitus
  • Malnutrition
  • Malabsorption state
  • Addison disease
  • Gastric adenocarcinoma
  • Colorectal carcinoma
  • Carcinoma of breast
  • Chronic liver disease
  • Tuberculosis
  • Hyperemesis gravidarum
  • Brucellosis
  • Polyarteritis nodosa
  • Polymyalgia rheumatica
  • Glucagonoma
  • Fasciola hepatica
  • Haemochromatosis

• Effects

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis malfunction

• Parents

  • Constitutional symptom

• Treats

  • Type II diabetes mellitus
  • Hypertension
  • Coronary artery disease
  • Cholelithiasis
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Back pain
  • Sleep apnoea
  • Stress incontinence
  • Alzheimer disease
  • Benign intracranial hypertension
  • Colorectal carcinoma
  • Carcinoma of breast
  • Carcinoma of pancreas
  • Carcinoma of oesophagus
  • Uterine cancer