anorexia nervosa
type of eating disorder
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Summary
anorexia nervosa is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,557 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: mental disorder[3]
- Subclass of: eating disorder[4], disease[5]
- Commons category: Anorexia nervosa[6]
- ICPC 2 ID: P86[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Anorexia nervosa[8]
- Possible treatment: psychotherapy[9], psychomotor education[10]
- Facet of: women's health[11]
- Has characteristic: food refusal[12], social stigma of obesity[13]
- ICD-9-CM: 307.1[14]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C34387[15]
- Different from: anorexia[16]
- Health specialty: psychiatry[17], clinical psychology[18]
- Genetic association: PPP3CA[19], GRID1[20], MCTP1[21], CAMK1D[22], WWOX[23], SGPP2[24], ZNF804B[25], NTNG1[26], AKAP6[27], NALF1[28], LRP2[29], VGLL4[30]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_8689[31], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:8689[32]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[33], gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[34]
Why It Matters
anorexia nervosa has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]