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weight loss

reduction of the total body mass
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Summary

weight loss is a clinical sign[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of clinical sign entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,454 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
  • Subclass of: body weight change[4], nutrition, metabolism, and development symptom[5], management of obesity[6], reduction[7]
  • Commons category: Weight loss[8]
  • Opposite of: weight gain[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Weight loss[10]
  • Facet of: human body weight[11], women's health[12]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C3445[13]
  • Drug or therapy used for treatment: bariatric medicine[14]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0001824[15], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000178[16], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000476[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18], gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[19]

Why It Matters

weight loss has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Waistline women's health

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → weight-loss
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: weight-loss, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289971107|weight loss (#289971107)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Weight loss
    Instance of → —
    Svkkl authority id → h0001119-redukce-telesne-hmotnosti
    Instance of → clinical sign, symptom or sign
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001119-redukce-telesne-hmotnosti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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