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What can cause sudden excessive weight gain?
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Weight gain: Many possibilities but more common would be excessive eating, thyroid abnormalities, heart failure, renal failure, excessive protein in the urine- it's a broad list. Please see your physician for a work up.
Answered 4/19/2016
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Weight gain: This is a great article about reasons for unintentional weight gain: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003084.htm
Answered 5/19/2015
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