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Are diabetes, thyroid diseases, child births common causes of obesity?
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Obesity: Obesity is the main cause of diabetes type 2. Thyroid disease can cause weight gain or weight loss, depending on what it's doing. Obesity does not cause child births.
Answered 1/20/2014
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No: It is the other way around: obesity can lead to type 2 diabetes, and is associated with a higher risk for developing type 1 diabetes. Hypothyrodism is not responsible for obesity, especially when thyroid function tests become normal with levothyroxine treatment.
Answered 4/11/2014
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