Version June 2024
| Major causes of unintentional weight loss |
| Malignancy (eg, gastrointestinal, lung, lymphoma, renal, and prostate cancers) |
| Nonmalignant gastrointestinal diseases (eg, peptic ulcer disease, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease) |
| Psychiatric disorders (particularly depression), also eating disorders, food-related delusional manifestations of other psychiatric disorders |
| Endocrinopathies (eg, hyperthyroidism, diabetes, adrenal insufficiency) |
| Infectious diseases (eg, HIV, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, chronic fungal or bacterial disease, chronic helminth infection) |
| Advanced chronic disease (eg, cardiac cachexia from heart failure, pulmonary cachexia, renal failure) |
| Neurologic diseases (eg, stroke, dementia, Parkinson disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) |
| Medications/substances |
| Rheumatologic diseases (eg, severe rheumatoid arthritis, giant cell vasculitis) |
| Chronic vigorous exercise (eg, distance running, ballet dancing, gymnastics) |
| Medication/substances associated with weight loss |
| Alcohol |
| Cocaine |
| Amphetamines |
| Drug withdrawal syndromes (withdrawal after chronic high-dose psychotropic medications or cannabis) |
| Tobacco |
| Adverse effects of prescription drugs (eg, antiseizure medications, diabetes medications, thyroid medication)* |
| Herbal and other nonprescription drugs (5-hydroxytryptophan, aloe, caffeine, cascara, chitosan, chromium, dandelion, ephedra, garcinia, glucomannan, guarana, guar gum, herbal diuretics, nicotine, pyruvate, St. John's wort) |
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