dementia

long-term brain disorder causing personality changes and impaired memory, reasoning, and social function
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q83030
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dementia

Summary

dementia is a class of disease[1]. dementia ranks in the top 3% of class_of_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,958 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • dementia's instance of is recorded as class of disease[3].
  • dementia's instance of is recorded as symptom or sign[4].
  • dementia is a type of cognitive disorder[5].
  • dementia is a type of organic brain syndrome[6].
  • dementia is a type of clinical sign[7].
  • dementia is a type of disability affecting intellectual abilities[8].
  • dementia is a type of disease[9].
  • dementia's Commons category is recorded as Dementia[10].
  • dementia's ICPC 2 ID is recorded as P70[11].
  • dementia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dementia[12].
  • dementia's prevalence is recorded as {'amount': '+0.039'}[13].
  • dementia's prevalence is recorded as {'amount': '+0.062'}[14].
  • dementia's prevalence is recorded as {'amount': '+0.065'}[15].
  • dementia's prevalence is recorded as {'amount': '+0.026'}[16].
  • dementia's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[17].
  • dementia's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[18].
  • dementia's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 290.8[19].
  • dementia's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 294.8[20].
  • dementia's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 294.1[21].
  • dementia's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C4786[22].
  • dementia's health specialty is recorded as psychiatry[23].
  • dementia's health specialty is recorded as neurology[24].
  • dementia's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as (RS)-citalopram[25].
  • dementia's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as risperidone[26].
  • dementia's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as perphenazine[27].

Why It Matters

dementia ranks in the top 3% of class_of_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,958 views/month).[2] dementia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] dementia is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . alzheimersanddementia.com. Retrieved . alzheimersanddementia.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . alzheimersanddementia.com. Retrieved . alzheimersanddementia.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . alzheimersanddementia.com. Retrieved . alzheimersanddementia.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . alzheimersanddementia.com. Retrieved . alzheimersanddementia.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project WikiProject Medicine, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of cognitive disorder, organic brain syndrome, clinical sign +2
    Instance of class of disease, symptom or sign
    Handled, mitigated, or managed by prevention of dementia
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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