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There are many articles that can help answer the question of applicant hemoglobin A1c values, including this study from CRL: Relationship… Read More
Tags: Diabetes, Diabetic, Life Insurance, Mortality, Underwriting
Dr. Heather Fehling, Chief Scientific Officer of Molecular Diagnostics at CRL, was honored to join the Society of Actuaries Epigenetics… Read More
Tags: Epigenetics, Genetics, Life Insurance, Mortality, Science
Dr. Michael Fulks, MD, comments on earlier research regarding the relative mortality in apparently healthy adults with various urine protein/creatinine… Read More
Tags: Lab Tests, Life Insurance, Mortality, Underwriting, Urinalysis
Are you giving systolic blood pressure (SBP) the credit or debit it deserves? Review your company’s preferred criteria and note… Read More
Tags: Blood Pressure, Bp, Hypertension, Life Insurance, Mortality
CRL has received FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and is scaling up capacity for CRL Rapid Response™, a saliva-based COVID-19… Read More
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid 19 Crisis, Covid 19 Testing, FDA
How do you find a very expensive early mortality risk, most of which is the result of undiagnosed — but… Read More
Tags: Cancer, Lab Tests, Life Insurance, Mortality, Underwriting
An Important Tool for Improved Risk Selection CRL is pleased to introduce a new polypharmacy laboratory test to aid insurers… Read More
Tags: Lab Tests, Life Insurance, Mortality, Polypharmacy, Underwriting
Life insurance underwriting is, arguably, the most successful implementation of predictive analytics ever developed. One need only look at the… Read More
Tags: Algorithms, Life Insurance, Mortality, Risk Analysis, Underwriting
Body mass index (BMI) purports to be a measure of adiposity (body fat), and its association with mortality and cardiovascular… Read More
Tags: Body Image, Fat, Life Insurance, Mortality, Muscles
In a recent Journal of Insurance Medicine article¹, Drs. Rigatti and Stout used data from over 300,000 individuals who had… Read More
Tags: Cancer, Doctors, Life Insurance, Mortality, Underwriting
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