To help aging populations, classify organismal senescence
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Globally, citizens exist for sustained periods in states of aging-related disease and multimorbidity. Given the urgent and unmet clinical, health care, workforce, and economic needs of aging populations, we need interventions and programs that regenerate tissues and organs and prevent and reverse aging-related damage, disease, and frailty (1). In response to these challenges, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a comprehensive public-health response within an international legal framework based on human rights law (1). Yet for a clinical trial to be conducted, a disease to be diagnosed, intervention prescribed, and treatment administered; a corresponding disease classification code is needed, adopted nationally from the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Such classifications and staging are fundamental for health care governance among governments and intergovernmental bodies. We describe a systematic and comprehensive approach to the classification and staging of organismal senescence and aging-related diseases at the organ and tissue levels in order to guide policy and practice and enable appropriate interventions and clinical guidance, systems, resources, and infrastructure.
Date Issued
2019-11-01
Date Acceptance
2019-10-17
Citation
Science, 2019, 366 (6465), pp.576-578
ISSN
0036-8075
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Start Page
576
End Page
578
Journal / Book Title
Science
Volume
366
Issue
6465
Copyright Statement
© 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science http://www.sciencemag.org/about/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science, DOI: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6465/576
Subjects
General Science & Technology
Publication Status
Published