Does biological aging qualify as a disease? Does this affect the development of therapies that treat and prevent age-related diseases? Here's Nicola's take on the subject.
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Sources and further reading:
About the ICD
https://www.who.int/classifications/i... https://www.britannica.com/topic/Inte...
About the "aging-related" extension code
https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/... https://www.leafscience.org/a-step-cl... https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la... http://longevityalliance.org/?q=aging... https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas... https://endpoints.elysiumhealth.com/i...
Definitions of aging
http://senescence.info/aging_definiti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
Comfort, A. (1964). Ageing: The Biology of Senescence. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
Definitions of disease
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti... https://web.archive.org/web/201004110... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Healthy aging
https://www.who.int/ageing/healthy-ag... https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh... https://www.who.int/ageing/events/wor...
About aging as a disease
https://www.leafscience.org/the-ambit... https://www.leafscience.org/is-aging-... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2... https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2... https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2...
About syndromes
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndrome https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope...
WHO Constitution
https://www.who.int/governance/eb/who...
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