Causes of Obesity

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Conditions listing medical complications: Obesity:

The following list of medical conditions have 'Obesity' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

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List of 250 causes of Obesity

This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Obesity in our database from various sources.

• Abdominal obesity metabolic syndrome - abdominal obesity
• Achard-Thiers Syndrome - obesity
• Acrocephalopolysyndactyly, type 2 (ACPS 2) - obesity
• Adiposogenital dystrophy
• Adrenal adenoma, familial - excessive body fat in torso
• Adrenal Cancer - obesity
• Adrenal Cortex Diseases - upper body obesity
• Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms - excessive body fat in torso
• Adrenal gland hyperfunction - excessive body fat in torso
• Adrenal incidentaloma - excessive body fat in torso
• Adrenocortical carcinoma - excessive body fat in torso
• Albright like syndrome - obesity
• Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy - obesity
• Alcohol-induced pseudo-Cushing syndrome - weight gain
• Ampola syndrome - obesity
• Aniridia - ptosis - mental retardation - obesity, familial - obesity
• Aniridia ptosis mental retardation obesity familial type - obesity
• Anophthalmia - short stature - obesity - obesity
• Anorexia Nervosa - Weight changes
• Aromatase deficiency - obesity
• Astrocytoma - changes in weight
• Atkin-Flatiz syndrome - obesity
• Austrian syndrome - weight changes
• Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome - Weight gain
• Autoimmune thyroid diseases - weight gain
• Ayazi syndrome - obesity
• Babinski-Froelich Syndrome - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 1 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 10 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 11 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 12 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 2 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 3 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 4 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 5 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 6 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 7 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 8 - obesity
• Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 9 - obesity
• Bearn-Kunkel syndrome - obesity
• Biemond syndrome type 2 - obesity
• Binge eating disorder - obesity
• Bipolar disorder - weight gain
• Bobble-head doll syndrome - obesity
• Borjeson Syndrome - adult obesity
• Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome
• Brain injury
• Breathing-related sleep disorder - obesity
• Budd-Chiari syndrome - increased weight
• Cancer - Unexplained weight gain
• Cardiomyopathy - hypogonadism - metabolic anomalies - obesity
• Carpenter syndrome - obesity
• Chondrodysplasia, Grebe type - obesity
• Choroideremia - obesity
• Chromophobe adenoma
• Chromosome 1, uniparental disomy 1q12 q21 - Overweight
• Chromosome 11p, partial deletion - obesity
• Chromosome 12p tetrasomy syndrome - obesity
• Chromosome 1p deletion syndrome - overweight
• Chromosome 21q deletion syndrome - obesity
• Chromosome 3, trisomy 3q13 2 q25 - obesity
• Chromosome 4, trisomy 4p - obesity
• Chromosome 5, trisomy 5q - Obesity
• Chromosome 5q duplication syndrome - obesity
• Chromosome 9, partial trisomy 9p - obesity
• Clark-Baraitser syndrome - obesity
• Cohen syndrome - obesity
• Comfort eating
• Congestive Heart Failure - weight gain
• Cortisone reductase deficiency - abdominal obesity
• Craniopharyngioma
• Cushing syndrome, familial - upper body obesity
• Cushing's disease
• Cushing's syndrome - obesity
• Del (1) (pter-p36.3) mosaicism - obesity
• Del(1) (pter-p35) - obesity
• Deletion 6q16 q21 - obesity
• Depression - weight gain
• Depressive disorders - weight gain
• Diabetes - Weight gain
• Dilated cardiomyopathy - abnormal weight gain
• Disordered Eating - weight gain
• Duplication 5q - Obesity
• Duplication 9p partial - obesity
• Dysthymia - weight gain
• Eating disorders - Obesity
• Eclampsia - weight gain
• Edema
• Emerinopathy - obesity
• Empty sella syndrome - acquired - obesity
• Empty sella syndrome - primary - obesity
• Encephalitis
• Ethanol
• Extranodal Marginal Zone B-cell Lymphoma of Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue - weight gain
• Familial hypopituitarism - increased weight
• Familial hypothyroidism - increased weight
• Familial obesity
• Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis - weight gain
• Food addiction - weight increase
• Fowler-Christmas-Chapple syndrome - weight gain
• Froelich's syndrome - obesity
• Frohlich syndrome
• Frolich's syndrome - obesity
• Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase deficiency, hereditary - obesity
• Frölich's syndrome - obesity
• Functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor - excessive body fat in torso
• Gastro-enteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor - weight gain
• Gelatinous ascites - increased weight
• Gluten allergy - unexplained weight gain
• Grahmann's syndrome - obesity
• Growth Hormone Receptor Deficiency - obesity
• HAIR-AN Syndrome - obesity
• Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - weight gain
• Heart failure - abnormal weight gain
• Hepatic veno-occlusive disease - immunodeficiency - increased weight
• Hereditary hypothyroidism - Weight gain
• Hydrocephalus obesity hypogonadism - obesity
• Hyperadrenalism - excessive body fat in torso
• Hyperandrogenism - obesity
• Hyperostosis frontalis interna - obesity
• Hyperpituitarism - Obese
• Hypertension of pregnancy - sudden weight increase
• Hypertrichosis brachydactyly obesity and mental retardation - obesity
• Hypogonadism - mitral valve prolapse - mental retardation - obesity
• Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism - syndactyly - obesity
• Hypopituitarism - weight increase
• Hypothalamic dysfunction - increased weight
• Hypothalamus tumor
• Hypothyroid goitre - Weight gain
• Hypothyroidism
• Idiopathic edema - increased weight
• Insulinoma
• Kleine-Levin-Critchley syndrome
• Klinefelter syndrome - rounded body type
• Klinefelter syndrome, variants - overweight
• Laron dwarfism - obesity
• Laron Pituitary Dwarfism - obesity
• Laron Syndrome - obesity
• Laron syndrome type 1 - obesity
• Laron syndrome type 2 - obesity
• Laron Type Pituitary Dwarfism 1 - obesity
• Laron-type dwarfism - obesity
• Laron-type Dwarfism Phenotypic Syndrome - obesity
• Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome
• Leschke-Ullmann syndrome - obesity
• Lipoprotein disorder - overweight
• Lowe oculocerebrorenal syndrome - chubby during younger years
• Lupus nephritis - weight gain
• Lymphomatous thyroiditis - weight gain
• Masculinisation - weight gain
• Mauriac syndrome - obesity
• McCune-Albright Syndrome - weight gain
• McKusick type metaphyseal chondrodysplasia - adult obesity
• Medication related hypothyroidism - Weight gain
• Melanocortin 4 receptor defect
• Menopause - Weight gain
• Mental retardation - blepharophimosis - obesity - web neck - obesity
• Mental retardation - epilepsy - bulbous nose - obesity
• Mental retardation - epileptic seizures - hypogonadism - hypogenitalism -microcephaly - obesity - obesity
• Mental retardation - gynecomastia - obesity, X-linked - obesity
• Mental retardation - nasal hypoplasia - obesity - genital hypoplasia - obesity
• Mental retardation unusual facies ampola type - obesity
• Mental retardation X-linked short stature obesity - obesity
• Mental retardation X-linked syndromic 7 - obesity
• Mental retardation, epileptic seizures, hypogonadism and hypogenitalism, microcephaly, and obesity - obesity
• Mental retardation, X linked - precocious puberty - obesity - obesity
• Mental retardation, X-linked - gynecomastia - obesity - obesity
• Mental retardation, X-linked - hypogonadism - ichthyosis - obesity - short stature - obesity
• Mental retardation, X-linked, 36 - obesity
• Mental retardation, X-linked, 91 - childhood obesity
• Mental retardation, X-linked, syndromic 11 - obesity
• Mental retardation, X-linked, syndromic type 11 - obesity
• Metabolic Syndrome - Obesity
• Metaphyseal dysostosis mental retardation conductive deafness - obesity
• Middle age spread
• MOMO syndrome - obesity
• Myxedema - weight gain
• Nguyen syndrome - obesity
• Obesity - Increased weight
• Obesity - colitis - hypothyroidism - cardiac hypertrophy - developmental delay - obesity
• Obesity due to congenital leptin deficiency - obesity
• Obesity, hypothyroidism, craniosynostosis, cardial hypertrophy, colitis and intellectual deficiency - obesity
• OHSS - weight increase
• Optic pathway glioma - increased weight
• Ovarian Cancer - weight change
• Ovarian carcinosarcoma - weight changes
• Overeating - see causes of overeating
• Overgrowth syndrome, type Fryer - increased weight
• Overweight - Increased weight
• Panhypopituitarism - increased weight
• Physical addiction - weight changes
• Physical inactivity - obesity
• Pituitary cancer, childhood - excessive body fat in torso
• Pituitary gland cancer
• Pituitary gland disease
• Pituitary gland tumor
• Pituitary tumors, adult - excessive body fat in torso
• Pituitary tumour (growth hormone secreting)
• Polycystic ovarian disease, familial - obesity
• Polycystic ovaries urethral sphincter dysfunction - weight gain
• Polycystic ovary syndrome - obesity
• Polyneuropathy - mental retardation - acromicria - premature menopause - obesity
• Polyphagia
• Prader-Willi syndrome - Obesity
• Prednisolone
• Pregnancy toxemia /hypertension - sudden weight increase
• Premenstrual dysphoric disorder - weight increase
• Premenstrual syndrome - weight gain
• Primary hypothyroidism - Weight gain
• Prolidase deficiency - childhood obesity
• Pseudohypoparathyroidism
• Pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a
• Psychological addiction - weight changes
• Reactive hypoglycemia - overeating occurs to avoid going "down" into a hypoglycemic attack.
• Reduced metabolic rate
• Renal tubulopathy - diabetes mellitus - cerebellar ataxia - obesity
• Retinohepatoendocrinologic syndrome - obesity
• Riedel syndrome - weight gain
• Schinzel Syndrome - obesity
• Schroeder syndrome 1 - obesity
• Secondary hypothyroidism - Weight gain
• Sengers-Hamel-Otten syndrome - obesity
• Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome, type 1 (SGBS1) - obesity
• Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome, type 2 - obesity
• Sleep Apnea Syndromes - overweight
• Sohval-Soffer syndrome - obesity
• Some brain tumors
• Stein-Leventhal syndrome
• Sub clinical hypothyroidism - Weight gain
• Subaortic stenosis - short stature syndrome - obesity
• Summitt syndrome - obesity
• Syndrome X
• Tertiary hypothyroidism - Weight gain
• Third ventricle tumor
• Thyroid disorders - weight gain
• Thyroid hormone plasma membrane transport defect - weight problems
• Trophoblastic Cancer - Weight gain
• Type 2 diabetes - Weight gain
• Underactive thyroid gland
• Urban rogers meyer syndrome - obesity
• Vasquez Hurst Sotos syndrome - obesity
• WAGR Syndrome - obesity
• Weight cycling - Obesity
• Williams Syndrome - obesity
• Wilms tumor - aniridia - genitourinary anomalies - mental retardation - obesity
• Wilson-Turner X-linked mental retardation - Obesity
• X-linked mental retardation craniofacial abnormal microcepahly club - Obesity
• X-linked mental retardation-hypotonic facies syndrome
• Young-Hughes syndrome - Obesity

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