{"id":22081,"date":"2016-02-14T07:47:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-assert-that-the-who-should-classify-aging-as-a-disease"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:56:09","slug":"scientists-assert-that-the-who-should-classify-aging-as-a-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-assert-that-the-who-should-classify-aging-as-a-disease","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Assert That the WHO Should Classify Aging as a Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l62jlwgL3v8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists are calling on the WHO to classify aging as a disease, asserting that we need to create a better classification for what happens to our bodies as we get older.<\/p>\n<p>A new controversy is brewing, as one group of scientists is recommending that aging be considered a disease.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from <a href=\"http:\/\/insilicomedicine.com\" target=\"_blank\">Insilico Medicine<\/a> are highlighting the need to create a more granular and applied classification for what happens to our bodies when we age. Their work is outlined in a <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fgene.2015.00326\/full\" target=\"_blank\">recent paper published in Frontiers in Genetics<\/a>. The classification that they argue for is based on the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), which is expected to be finalized in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-assert-classify-aging-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of scientists are calling on the WHO to classify aging as a disease, asserting that we need to create a better classification for what happens to our bodies as we get older. A new controversy is brewing, as one group of scientists is recommending that aging be considered a disease. Scientists from Insilico [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62879,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22081\/revisions\/62879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}