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How can diabetes cause weight loss?

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Dr. Christopher John answered

Specializes in internal Medicine - Pulmonary Critical Care

Dehydration &ketosis: Sugar is an osmotic diuretic.Diabetes causes increased sugar in your urine.This causes the patient to loose too much water causing significant weight loss. Due to abnormal metabolisum the patient becomes catabolic breaking down othersources of calories causing ketosis.Increased ketones reduce appetite.

Answered 4/27/2013

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