{"id":92234,"date":"2019-06-17T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/inching-towards-the-regulatory-classification-of-aging-as-a-disease"},"modified":"2019-06-17T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:04:15","slug":"inching-towards-the-regulatory-classification-of-aging-as-a-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/inching-towards-the-regulatory-classification-of-aging-as-a-disease","title":{"rendered":"Inching Towards the Regulatory Classification of 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\/-iNwUnGD7sY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This post originally appeared at Fight Aging!<\/p>\n<p>Sizable factions within the research and advocacy communities are very interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2015\/09\/insight-into-the-machinations-of-classifying-aging-as-a-disease\/\">having aging officially classified as a disease<\/a>, meaning its inclusion in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/classifications\/icd\/en\/\">International Classification of Diseases<\/a> maintained by the <a href=\"http:\/\/who.int\/\">World Health Organization<\/a>, as that is the basis for the definition of disease used by national regulatory bodies. The view is that this would open the door to greater large-scale institutional funding, more relevant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clinical_trial\">clinical trials<\/a> for therapies targeting the mechanisms of aging, and that this greater level of funding and activity will percolate back down the chain of research and development to accelerate progress. I think this a reasonable argument to make, though I would advocate for greater effort to be placed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2018\/04\/a-nuanced-opposition-to-the-fda-and-similar-regulatory-agencies\/\">finding a way to bypass the system<\/a> rather than change it directly \u2013 the threat of competition tends to be more effective than petitions as a way to force change.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lobbyists have made more progress towards classifying aging as a disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) has implemented the <a href=\"https:\/\/icd.who.int\/browse11\/l-m\/en#\/http:\/\/id.who.int\/icd\/entity\/459275392\">extension code \u201cAgeing-related\u201d (XT9T)<\/a> in the latest version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The previous version, the ICD-10, was released in 1983 and is now replaced by the new version, the ICD-11, which is expected to serve the medical community for many years, much as its predecessor has.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at Fight Aging! Sizable factions within the research and advocacy communities are very interested in having aging officially classified as a disease, meaning its inclusion in the International Classification of Diseases maintained by the World Health Organization, as that is the basis for the definition of disease used by national regulatory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92234","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}