The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-11-26
TELL PUBLIC HOW
TO LIVE LONGER
INSURANCE EXPERTS TO PRE-.
SENT FACTS AND FIGURES OF
GREATEST IMPORTANCE

New York-(A. P)-Subjects of
human interest will hold first place
at the 18th annual convention of the
Association Of Life Insurance Presi-
dents, to be held in this city Decem-
ber 6 and z. There will be present.
ed facts and figures of current ex-
perience among the life insurance
companies as to what diseases are
killing policy holders and how some
of those causes, particularly high
blood pressure diseases, can at least
be reduced. While this subject will
be discussed from business and eco
nomic angles, it is expected to de-
velop, incidentally, a sentimental ap-
peal to the individual with his desire
for longer life.
Life insurance executives, repre-
senting 95 per cent of the fifty-five
billion dollars of old line life protec-
tion now outstanding in companies
domiciled in practically every state of
the Union, are expected to be in at
tendance. Canadian life insurance
companies also will be represented.
Federal, State and provincial officials
and educators, economists and busi-
ness men will join in this two-day
conference on various national prob
lens.
''The life insurance policyholder of
today knows that he has something
which his father never heard of,
blood pressure" said Manager
George T. Wight of the association in
announcing the plans for the conven-
tion. Everybody has always had
blood pressure, but it was not until
the life insurance companies devel-
oped its relationship to tenure of life
that the man on the street began to
know about it through millions of
examinations of prospective policy
holders these companies have acquir-
ed knowledge as to- what normal
blood pressure is and how far a man
may deviate from it before he be-
comes a poor risk Experts tell us
that high blood pressure may be two
or three years ahead of the develop
ment of more visible symptoms of ap-
preaching impairment in the physical
wellbeing of the individual. Lime in
slrance executives now know from
their records that men with high
blood pressure do not live as long as
men with normal blood pressure.
Broadly speaking. there seems to be
no dispute JidC continued n1Sn DlOOu
pressure spells a shortened tenure of
life, particularly in those approach
ing middle age, but there are differ
ences of opinion as to what factors
have the most effect in raising blood
pressure.
"The approaching convention of
the Association of Life Insurance
Presidents is to make study of this
subject based on an original interna-
tional survey, just completed, of
blood pressure records obtained from
a large number of widely separated
countries. These statistics will be
presented to the convention by Ar
thur Hunter chief actuary of the
New York Life Insurance Company.
realized in prolonging
human life in the United States in
the last two decades has been largely
due to the control of diseases in
which high blood pressure has not
had prominent part, including tub
erculosis, contagious diseases, etc.
Those planning the convention are
hopeful that this survey will deve1-
op both popular and scientific inter-
est in pointing the way further to in
crease American longevity. particu-
larly with respect to middle ages