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...
Shortened Survival and Life Expectancy with a Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) [0.03%]
注意缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)诊断缩短的生存期及预期寿命
John R Iacovino
John R Iacovino
Mental health disorders are harder to evaluate for life insurance because their diagnoses can be subjective. To make fair decisions, insurance medical directors use research from trusted sources to calculate risk based on survival data. Thi...
Mortality Risk of High BMI in Life Insurance Applicants and the US Population [0.03%]
体重指数较高的个体申请人寿保险以及美国人的死亡风险
Steven J Rigatti,Stephanie Tanasia Saputra,Jean-Marc Fix
Steven J Rigatti
Objectives.—: This study seeks to quantify the mortality effect of high levels of body mass index (BMI) on life insurance applicants and participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) in un...
Leukemia - 20-Year Comparative Survival and Mortality Analysis by Age, Sex, Race, Cohort Entry Time-Period, Disease Duration, Major Subtypes and Other Histologic Categories: A Systematic Review of 142,713 Cases for Diagnosis Years 1975-2022 [0.03%]
急性髓系白血病的长期生存分析：按年龄、性别、种族、诊断时期、疾病持续时间、主要亚型及其他组织学类别比较分析——系统回顾142713例1975年至2022年期间的诊断病例
Anthony F Milano
Anthony F Milano
Leukemia is a broad term for a heterogenous group of hematologic malignancies that arise from the abnormal proliferation of leukocytes. It occurs most often in adults older than 55, but also is the most common cancer in children younger tha...
An Illustration of the Protective Value of Epigenetics: Using the Alcohol T Score (ATS) in A Population of Known Smokers [0.03%]
表观遗传学的保护作用示例——在一个已知吸烟率的人群中使用酒精T评分(ATS)
James A Mills,Jeffrey D Long,Robert A Philibert
James A Mills
Background.—: Previously we have shown that, in theory, a prediction algorithm that incorporates methylation sensitive digital PCR (MSdPCR) assessments of smoking and drinking could predict mortality. But the potential i...
Rodney C Richie
Rodney C Richie
Liver steatosis is now the politically correct term for excessive fat in the liver (fatty liver). Its incidence and prevalence, in lockstep with diabetes and obesity, continue to climb to over 2 billion persons worldwide. It is the most com...
Clifton P Titcomb
Clifton P Titcomb
In the United States, ovarian cancer is the second most common form of gynecologic cancer and the second leading cause of gynecologic cancer death. It is a heterogeneous disease with many different types and subtypes. The most common variet...