CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AN EXTENSIVE ACTUARIAL STUDY OF BUILD AND BLOOD PRESSURE
Authors: J J HUTCHINSON
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1961)

Article1 January 1961CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AN EXTENSIVE ACTUARIAL STUDY OF BUILD AND BLOOD PRESSUREJOHN J. HUTCHINSON, M.D.JOHN J. HUTCHINSON, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-54-1-90 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptWhen data derived from exceedingly large numbers of medical examinations made in connection with applications for life insurance are studied statistically to relate them to mortality experience, the results obviously will be used as the basis upon which future insurance will be underwritten. The results should also be of some interest to those concerned with conservation of life and health. For nearly 50 years studies have been carried out using data pooled from several insurance companies. The most recent of these studies1 represents a detailed evaluation of variations in build and blood pressure in relation to mortality experience.The purpose...Bibliography1. Build and Blood Pressure Study, 1959. Society of Actuaries, Vol. I. Google Scholar2. Statistical Bulletin. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Vol. 40, November-December, 1959. Google Scholar3. DublinMarks LIHH: Mortality among insured overweights in recent years. Trans. Life Ins. Med. Dir. of America, Vol. XXXV, 235-263, 1951. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New York, N. Y.*Received for publication April 29, 1960.†Medical Director, New York Life Insurance Company; Chairman, Mortality Committee, The Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America.Presented at the Clinical Session of the Forty-first Annual Meeting of The American College of Physicians, San Francisco, California, April 5, 1960.Requests for reprints should be addressed to John J. Hutchinson, M.D., Medical Director, New York Life Insurance Company, 51 Madison Avenue, New York 10, New York. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byThe surgical treatment of morbid obesityIs obesity worth treating?Is obesity worth treating?An Overview of Therapy for Morbid ObesitySex hormones, risk factors and cardiovascular diseaseCurrent controversies in childhood obesityBody fat: Its relationship to coronary heart disease, blood pressure, lipids and other risk factors measured in a large male populationDiätetische Erzeugung von Fettsucht bei RattenCoronary Heart Disease: Overweight and Obesity as Risk FactorsANCEL KEYS, Ph.D., CHRIST ARAVANIS, N.D., HENRY BLACKBURN, M.D., F. S. P. VAN BUCHEM, M.D., RATKO BUZINA, M.D., B. S. DJORDJEVIC, M.D., FLAMINIO FIDANZA, M.D., MARTTI J. KARVONEN, M.D., Ph.D., ALESSANDRO MENOTTI, M.D., VITTORIO PUDDU, M.D., HENRY L. TAYLOR, Ph.D.What can be done to retard ageing and to increase expectation of life?Some Re-Evaluations of the Build and Blood Pressure Study, 1959 as Related to Ponderal Index, Somatotype and MortalityOverweight and hypertension in emerging populationsCardiovascular diseases in the United StatesPsychobiological Studies I. The Relationship of Intellectual Productivity as Measured by the Rorschach Test to Body WeightCAROLINE BEDELL THOMAS, M.D., F.A.C.P., MILDRED A. KENDRICK, PH.D. 1 January 1961Volume 54, Issue 1Page: 90-96KeywordsBlood pressureForecastingMortalityStatistical data ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 January 1961 PDF downloadLoading ...