Description: This article presents the findings by a University of Goettingen scientist who indicates that persons with type-O blood are 60% more likely to live to age 75 than are those with type A. This article discusses the impact of this finding on underwriting.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 10 is a recap of the mortality experience of Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance.

Description: The second part of a roundtable discussion on principals-based approach [PBA] and the life insurance industry, in this part discussing mortality experience studies. The first part appeared in the August/September 2008 issue of The Actuary.

Description: This article contains a listing of the publications of the National Center for Health Statistics. Copies of any of the listed publications can be obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics, Rockville, Maryland. In ordering, the series number and the number within the series should be given.

Description: This article is a review and summary of the final volume in the series of Vital and Health Statistics Monographs initiated by the late Mortimer Spiegelman, FSA, in 1958. This final volume analyzes mortality and morbidity trends since the beginning of the century.

Description: Recently completed experience and research studies from the SOA.

Description: Recent mortality experience of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance SGLI from the Veteran's Administration, separated by Viet Nam and non-Viet Nam experience.

Description: This article is a book review of “Medical Risks: Patterns of Mortality and Survival,” by Richard B. Singer, MD, and Louis Levenson, FSA. The author of this review notes “monumental is an adjective one hears in reference to this book and it certainly seems apt both in regard to the tremendous amount of work in its preparation and, more importantly, its value to those to whom it is directed. The book contains a mine of information in the form of mortality indices relating to a large number of risk factors, mainly specific diseases, abnormal physical findings, or abnormal findings on medical tests.”

Description: Summary of the Internal Revenue Service study on demographic and financial characteristics of the top wealthholders of the United States and a review of Metropolitan Life's mortality exerience for this group.

Description: This article summarizes the 1967 Surgeon General’s report on the health consequences of smoking.