John R Iacovino
John R Iacovino
Risk selection and underwriting are more than reviewing requirements and making a final decision. It is servicing our customers, the applicant, producer, and our company. Meeting the needs of all three assures the profitability of our compa...
Rodney C Richie
Rodney C Richie
There is increasing unease in the medical community about using the predictive value of the body measurement index (BMI) as a guide to an individual's current and future health. Elevated BMIs are evaluated by life and disability underwriter...
Coronary Artery Calcium Score - Practical Considerations for Underwriting [0.03%]
冠状动脉钙化积分在核保中的应用及注意事项
Emoke Posan
Emoke Posan
This brief practical review explores the fundamentals of coronary artery calcium score testing, its role in cardiovascular risk stratification, and how it can empower underwriting CV risks with greater clarity, speed, and confidence. ...
Disability Risk for Male Professional Soccer Players: A Question of Age? A New Method Based on Transfermarkt®'s Collaborative Data [0.03%]
基于Transfermarkt®数据的球员伤病风险评估模型及男性职业足球运动员伤病风险中的年龄效应研究
Antoine Moll,Denis Charles,Zeynep Kaya et al.
Antoine Moll et al.
The soccer industry generates billions in revenue, largely from matchday sales, commercial activities, and television rights. A significant portion of club revenues are spent on player wages making their availability for games and training ...
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...