Symptom
Weight loss
Unintentional or intentional reduction in total body mass of ≥5% of body weight over 6 to 12 months, typically resulting from negative energy balance due to reduced intake, increased expenditure, or catabolic disease processes. Possible causes are malnutrition (celiac disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency), endocrine disorders (hyperthyroidism, diabetes mellitus), malignancy (GI cancer, lungs, lymphoma), chronic infections (tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS), chronic heart failure, COPD, mental health factors (depression, anxiety, anorexia/bulimia nervosa, dementia, Parkinson's disease), oral health (gum disease), and medications (chemotherapy, thyroid medicines, illicit substance abuse).
Also known as: Emaciation, Wasting, Cachexia, Sarcopenia
Referencing diagnoses
- Achalasia
- Acute mesenteric ischemia
- Acute pancreatitis
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Amyloidosis
- Aortoenteric fistula
- Ascites
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Benign neoplasm of the small intestine
- Bezoar
- Breast cancer
- Cardiac tamponade
- Celiac disease
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Chronic mesenteric ischemia
- Colorectal cancer
- Colovesical fistula
- COPD
- Crohn disease
- Croup
- Dermatomyositis
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Discitis
- Epiglottitis
- Esophageal cancer
- Esophageal diverticula
- Gallbladder cancer
- Gallstone Ileus
- Gastric cancer
- Gastric lymphoma
- Gastric outlet obstruction
- Gastrinoma
- Gastroenteritis
- Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
- Gastrointestinal obstruction
- Glucagonoma
- Graves disease
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- HIV
- Hypercalcemia
- Hypernatremia
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypopituitarism
- Hypovolemia
- Intestinal malrotation
- Ischemic colitis
- Jaundice
- Laryngeal cancer
- Leishmaniasis
- Liver abscess
- Lung cancer
- Menetriers disease
- Metastatic bone tumors
- Multiple myeloma
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
- Pancreatic cancer
- Pericarditis
- Peritonitis
- Pituitary adenoma
- Pleural empyema
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Prostate cancer
- Pyloric stenosis
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Renal failure
- Retropharyngeal abscess
- Short bowel syndrome
- Small bowel cancer
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis
- Temporal arteritis
- Testicular cancer
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Toxic nodular goiter
- Tuberculosis
- Ulcerative colitis
- Ulcer disease
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- Whipple's disease
- Wilms Tumor
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.