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https://read.qxmd.com/read/33971007/the-journal-s-best-laid-plans-during-a-pandemic
#41
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ross MacKenzie
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 1, 2021: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33971006/memories-of-dr-gordon-r-cumming-march-2-1929-july-18-2020
#42
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ross MacKenzie
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 1, 2021: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33971005/d%C3%A3-j%C3%A3-vu-a-new-coronavirus-challenge
#43
Ross MacKenzie
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 1, 2021: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33971004/the-swine-flu-pandemic-should-we-be-concerned
#44
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ross MacKenzie
As I write this review, we are in the midst of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic. The extent and impact of this pandemic is still unknown. Although daily reports on confirmed cases and deaths provide a constant stream of detailed information, it is not possible to predict with any degree of precision the impact the outbreak will have in society in general or on the life insurance industry in particular.1 The epidemiology of such disease outbreaks has been likened to a jigsaw puzzle, and we are now at the stage where the picture is intriguing even if we are not sure what we are seeing...
January 1, 2021: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33971003/impact-of-aids-hiv-on-medical-directors
#45
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David G Underwood
The decade of AIDS/HIV has changed the way insurance medicine is practiced by medical directors. One director details some of these changes.
January 1, 2021: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33971002/insurance-and-epidemics-sars-west-nile-virus-and-nipah-virus
#46
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jan von Overbeck
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) reminds us that sudden disease emergence is a permanent part of our world-and should be anticipated in our planning. Historically the emergence of new diseases has had little or no impact beyond a small, localized cluster of infections. However, given just the right conditions, a highly virulent pathogen can suddenly spread across time and space with massive consequences, as has occurred on several occasions in human history. In the wake of the SARS outbreak, we are now forced to confront the unpleasant fact that human activities are increasing the frequency and severity of these kinds of emergences...
January 1, 2021: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33971001/jim-reading-list
#47
JOURNAL ARTICLE
(no author information available yet)
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 1, 2021: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33784738/long-covid-an-early-perspective
#48
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Timothy Meagher
A new syndrome called "Long COVID" has emerged amongst the survivors of acute COVID-19 infection. Its protracted and debilitating nature will almost certainly result in many short and long-term disability claims. Insurers need to understand the nature of Long COVID, including its definition, its prevalence, its natural history, and underlying risk factors. This article will summarize current knowledge of Long COVID and provide a perspective on its evolution and its impact.
January 1, 2021: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32520652/type-2-diabetes-in-china-considering-both-insurance-products-and-individual-health-factors
#49
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Celia Zhang Ying
For the past 30 years, the increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in China has reached epidemic proportions. As a result, risk assessment guidelines need to be updated by taking into consideration of improvements in medical treatment and lifestyle intervention. This especially applies to living insurance benefit policies (such as critical illness and total permanent disability) and to medical products (hospitalization reimbursement and certain DM-related treatment benefits). This will require taking into account the current epidemic figures of T2DM in China in pricing, targeting the correct insured group for the DM products and getting the correct risk profile by applying a dynamic underwriting protocol (such as using the rewards for medical intervention, and for primary prevention efforts to screen individuals who are at high-risk of diabetes)...
June 10, 2020: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32352855/activity-level-as-a-mortality-predictor-in-a-population-sample-after-typical-underwriting-exclusions-and-laboratory-scoring
#50
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Steven J Rigatti, Robert Stout
  Objectives.- To quantify the effect of physical activity on the mortality rates of healthy individuals in a population sample, after controlling for other sources of mortality risk. Background.- The widespread availability of activity monitors has spurred life insurance companies to consider incorporating such data into their underwriting practices. Studies have shown that sedentary lifestyles are associated with poor health outcomes and higher risks of death. The aim of this paper is to investigate how well certain measures of activity predict mortality when controlled for other known predictors of mortality including a multivariate laboratory based risk score...
April 30, 2020: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32023148/hepatic-adenoma
#51
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David S Williams
Hepatic adenomas are rare, usually benign tumors of the liver with a small risk for bleeding and malignant transformation.
February 5, 2020: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31618096/ahrr-methylation-is-a-significant-predictor-of-mortality-risk-in-framingham-heart-study
#52
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Robert A Philibert, Meeshanthini V Dogan, James A Mills, Jeffrey D Long
Background.- The ability to predict mortality is useful to clinicians, policy makers and insurers. At the current time, prediction of future mortality is still an inexact process with some proposing that epigenetic assessments could play a role in improving prognostics. In past work, we and others have shown that DNA methylation status at cg05575921, a well-studied measure of smoking intensity, is also a predictor of mortality. However, the exact extent of that predictive capacity and its independence of other commonly measured mortality risk factors are unknown...
October 16, 2019: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31609648/association-of-carcinoembryonic-antigen-with-mortality-in-an-insurance-applicant-population
#53
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Steven J Rigatti, Robert Stout
Objectives.- To quantify the mortality risks associated with elevated levels of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). Background.- Carcinoembryonic antigen is cell surface glycoprotein and has been associated with the presence of high grade or metastatic cancers of the colon as well as other malignant and non-malignant disease. Prior publications have demonstrated the utility of CEA levels in the determination of mortality risk in life insurance applicants. The aim of this paper is to further characterize this risk with a larger set of data containing additional person-years of follow-up, more outcomes, and additional variables potentially associated with occult malignancy...
October 14, 2019: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31609647/liquid-biopsies-and-critical-illness-insurance-uncomfortable-bedfellows
#54
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Timothy Meagher
Liquid biopsies hold great promise for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Earlier recognition of recurrent and metastatic disease and better treatment choices based on liquid biopsies seem achievable in the near future. However, earlier cancer diagnosis, the most heralded application, will remain the most challenging. The impact of liquid biopsies on life insurance will be positive. The impact on critical illness insurance will be more nuanced. It will depend on 2 factors: the success of liquid biopsies as cancer screening tests and the ability of an insurer to use "genetic information" during risk selection...
October 14, 2019: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31609641/-jim-reading-list
#55
JOURNAL ARTICLE
(no author information available yet)
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
October 14, 2019: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31219368/all-cause-mortality-for-life-insurance-applicants-with-the-presence-of-bundle-branch-block
#56
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stephen A Freitas, Ross MacKenzie, David N Wylde, Jason Von Bergen, J Carl Holowaty, Margaret Beckman, Steven J Rigatti, Daniel Zamarripa, Stacy Gill
Objective.- To determine the all-cause mortality of life insurance applicants who have a bundle branch block. Background.- Bundle branch block is an electrocardiographic pattern that has variable prognostic implications. Research studies have shown that both left and right bundle branch block are associated with increased mortality among cases that have heart disease. In the general population and life insurance applicant population, the prevalence of bundle branch block is relatively low, and its effects on long-term prognosis are not as well established...
June 20, 2019: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31194600/liquid-biopsies-and-critical-illness-insurance-uncomfortable-bedfellows
#57
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Timothy Meagher
Liquid biopsies hold great promise for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Earlier recognition of recurrent and metastatic disease and better treatment choices based on liquid biopsies seem achievable in the near future. However, earlier cancer diagnosis, the most heralded application, will remain the most challenging. The impact of liquid biopsies on life insurance will be positive. The impact on critical illness insurance will be more nuanced. It will depend on 2 factors: the success of liquid biopsies as cancer screening tests and the ability of an insurer to use "genetic information" during risk selection...
June 13, 2019: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31194599/predicting-life-expectancy-precise-science-or-fool-s-errand
#58
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Timothy Meagher
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
June 13, 2019: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30848996/abnormal-head-ct-imaging-in-afghanistan-empiric-treatment-of-abnormal-findings-in-an-austere-environment
#59
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David S Williams
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 8, 2019: Journal of Insurance Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30848995/jim-reading-list
#60
JOURNAL ARTICLE
(no author information available yet)
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 8, 2019: Journal of Insurance Medicine
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