Annals of Life Insurance Medicine - 1967 Volume III

List of contents

A Life Insurer's Interpretation of Survival Rates.- The Concept of Disability.- Geographical Differences in Underwriting.- Antecedents of Disease. Insurance Mortality Experience.- The Role of the Electrocardiogram in Underwriting.- Magnitude of Silent Coronary Disease.- The Significance of Heart Size in Diagnosis and Prognosis.- The Prognosis of Chronic Cor Pulmonale.- Closed Valvuloplasty for Mitral Stenosis.- The Stroke - Pathogenesis, Course and Prognosis.- The Significance of Asymptomatic Mild Intermittent Proteinuria.- Prognosis of Hemorrhagic Disorders and of Benign and Malignant Diseases of the White Blood Cells.- Underwriting Mental Illness.- The Long-Term Prognosis of Diabetes Mellitus.- Endogenous and Exogenous Factors in the Etiology and Pathogenesis of Diabetes Mellitus: Heredity, Obesity, Civilization.- Author index.

Product details

• Assisted by: Swis Reinsurance Company (Editor), Swiss Reinsurance Company (Editor), Swiss Reinsurance Company (Editor), Swiss Reinsurance Company (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9783642856198
• ISBN: 978-3-642-85619-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 487 g
• Illustrations: IV, 272 p. 13 illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; C, Medicine, Obesity, Health Sciences, Medicine/Public Health, general, diagnosis;diseases;heart;heredity;mortality;obesity