Is ageing a disease?

Abstract

In this issue, we publish a Comment by Kiran Rabheru and colleagues detailing how an international group of clinicians came together to successfully challenge a new disease classification in the 11th revision of the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). In ICD-11, WHO had proposed including the term “old age” under the MG2A diagnostic category of symptoms, signs, or clinical findings not elsewhere classified. Rabheru and colleagues were concerned that inclusion of “old age” could potentially lead to real-world harm.

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