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The American Psychiatric Association recognized muscle dysmorphia with the fifth edition of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders". This "DSM-5", published in 2013, classifies it under body dysmorphic disorder. Muscle dysmorphia is absent from the "International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems present edition, the tenth, published in 1992.