Lung and Bronchus Cancer - 20-Year Comparative Mortality and Survival Analysis by Age, Sex, Race/Ethnicity, Stage, Grade, Disease Duration, Selected ICD-O-3 Oncophenotypes, and Cohort Entry Time-Period: A Systematic Review of 588,785 Cases for Diagnosis Years 1975-2022 [0.03%]
年龄、性别、种族/民族、分期、分级、疾病持续时间、选定的ICDO-3肿瘤表型和队列入组时期对20年肺癌和支气管癌死亡率和生存率的影响：基于1975-2022年诊断的588,785例系统综述
Anthony F Milano
Anthony F Milano
Cancers of the lung and bronchus are broad terms for a common, deadly, complex, heterogenous and histologically diverse group of respiratory malignancies that comprise the leading cause of global cancer incidence and mortality accounting fo...
Bipolar Disorders: Converting Years of Life Lost to Mortality Ratios [0.03%]
bipolar障碍：将失去的生命年转换为死亡率比例
John R Iacovino
John R Iacovino
A publication in the British Journal of Psychiatry reviews years of potential life lost (YPLL) and life expectancy in bipolar disorders.1 YPLL is useful in some insurance products but not in life insurance underwriting, where the magnitude ...
David Wesley
David Wesley
A common problem with mortality analyses on company or registry data is that the processing time on large datasets can be an impediment to the interactive process of the analysis. The following paper delineates an approach using the Polars ...
Assessing Insulin Resistance: The Triglyceride-Glucose (TyG) Index and Its Variants [0.03%]
评估胰岛素抵抗：甘油三酯-葡萄糖(TyG)指数及其变异型
Rodney C Richie
Rodney C Richie
The predictive value in determining a person's insulin resistance (IR) is relevant for underwriters and medical directors of life and disability insurance companies as these measurements may screen for the future development of prediabetes ...
Timothy Meagher
Timothy Meagher
The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in biologic discovery, and in the practice of medicine is rapidly increasing. AI-assisted analyses of large databases are leading to impressive biologic discoveries and AI-diagnostics are beginning t...
Wei Li
Wei Li
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. With the introduction of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), detection of adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) and minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA) are increasingly...
Rod Richie
Rod Richie
Timothy Meagher
Timothy Meagher
Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests are increasingly popular. Are these tests "genetic," and if so, can insurers use them in the risk assessment process? This article reviews definitions of genetic tests. It then reviews the motivatio...
Rodney C Richie
Rodney C Richie
There was a steady decrease in cardiovascular disease (CVD ischemic heart disease and stroke) mortality from 1960 to 2020, but since then, this decline has reversed. There have been over 228,000 excess CVD deaths through 2022,1 undoubtedly ...
Retinal Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring - A Scalable Tool for Life Insurers [0.03%]
视网膜冠状动脉钙评分-一种人寿保险业可扩展工具
Muhammed Adil Khan
Muhammed Adil Khan
Background.—: Cardiovascular risk estimation for life insurance underwriting relies on risk estimation from conventional metrics: age, sex, smoking status, body mass index, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total an...