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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about Huntington disease and death from Huntington disease.
Meaning of Huntington disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Huntington disease means a genetic disorder of the brain, which involves progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the basal ganglia and cortex, leading to motor, emotional and cognitive dysfunction.
(3)          While Huntington disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code G10, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of Huntington disease is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from Huntington disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Huntington disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's Huntington disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.