These publications are geared to advanced risk underwriters, claims assessors, and insurance medical offices. Risk underwriters in Life and Health insurance nowadays work in an environment that is characterized by rapidly increasing knowledge and constantly changing diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities in all areas of medicine.

Geneletter

Geneletter 02 (2006): Genetics and Longevity (480 KB)
Includes the following topics: genes and environmental conditions; genetic anti-ageing; eat less - live longer; stopwatch in the chromosomes; determinants of lifespan; sex-based differences in life expectancy; golden rules for a long life

Geneletter 01 (2006): Impact of Genetics on Insurance (944 KB)
Includes the following topics: obesity, Factor V Leiden, pharmacogenetics, genetic testing, and influenza pandemic.

Medletter

In each issue, Medletter deals with a selected medical topic related to life, disability and health insurance in a concise form.

Medletter 08 (2007): Diabetes (689 KB)
Includes the following topics: Diabetes mellitus - two main types; raised blood glucose in the risk assessment; protein in the urine - Albuminuria as a risk factor; HbA1c - the main prognostic parameter; diabetes in pregnancy is not gestational diabetes; Diabetes - the new basis of risk assessment; a case in practice - Type 2 diabetes

Medletter 07 (2006): Rheumatic diseases (506 KB)
Includes the following topics: Non-specific joint pain; erythrocyte sedimentation rate; when inflammation destroys the joints; Ankylosing spondylitis - chronic inflammation of the spine; systemic lupus erythematosus; HLA-B27 - have carriers got rhermatic disease in their blood; Rheumatoid arthritis

Medletter 06 (2005): What's new in insurance medicine? (438 KB)
Includes the following topics: Restless legs; non-alcoholic steatohepatitis; kidney and liver risk assessment of organ donors; ADHD; CDT - a test to detect alcoholism; colonic diverticula

Medletter 05 (2004): Blood pressure (433 KB)
Includes the following topics: Ambulatory 24-hour blood pressure monitoring; exercise hypertension; relevance of hypertension for prognosis; expense factor hypertension; hypertension and health insurance; new insights from risk assessment: revised blood pressure evaluation by Munich Re

Medletter 04 (2004): What’s new in insurance medicine? (221 KB)
Includes the following topics: Breast cancer; infectious diseases; mitral valve prolapses; new laboratory values for enzymes; early diagnosis for colorectal cancer; catheter ablation with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

Medletter 03 (2003): Allergies on the increase (301 KB)
Includes the following subjects: An underactive immune system strikes back; does animal dung protect from allergies?; the allergy march; allergy diagnostics today; prevention and treatment; interview with an expert; allergies in disability insurance

Medletter 02 (2002): What´s new in insurance medicine? (325 KB)
Includes the following subjects: Chronic hepatitis C; obstructive sleep apnea syndrome; organ transplantation and insurability; electron beam tomography; gastric banding; tacrolimus; automatic external defibrillation

Medletter 01 (2002): Diseases of the eye (322 KB)
Includes the following subjects: The most common abnormalities of vision; methods of examination used by the ophthalmologist; understanding the optical prescription, interview with an expert; a case in practice; risk assessment in disability insurance

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