About the disease

Causes of the Obesity

They are several factors that may affect obesity.

However, all these account for a very small percentage of obese patients. The main cause of obesity, both in Mexico and around the world, is the imbalance between what people eat and what they shed.

Obesity is a characteristic of all the syndromes previously mentioned; nevertheless, the components of each syndrome are so evident that it is difficult for them to go unnoticed and they can be discovered by carrying out laboratory tests on apparently healthy people.

It is important to mention that obesity is very often related to the incorrect functioning of the thyroid gland. Hypothyroidism (low thyroid function) is a relatively frequent condition that may go unnoticed during its initial stages and that may only be diagnosed by laboratory tests. At this stage, the incorrect function of the gland does not have much affect on overweight–if any at all- and patients whose obesity has been caused by hypothyroidism generally show a number of symptoms, such as weakness, fatigue, intolerance to cold, constipation, lethargy, husky voice, dry skin, and, in some cases, boiter.