secondary obesity

Obesity due to endocrine or other systemic disease

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secondary obesity

Obesity due to endocrine or other systemic disease. See Morbid obesity, Obesity.

Secondary obesity

Congenital Alström-Hallgren syndrome, Carpenter syndrome, Cohen syndrome, Lawrence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, Vasquez syndrome

CNS disease Defects of hypophyseal-hypothalamic axis, intracranial leukemia, and other lesions

Endocrinopathies Hypothyroidism, insulinoma, Cushing syndrome, polycystic ovary disease, pituitary dwarfism

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