Annals of Life Insurance Medicine: Volume 4

An investigation into the validity of the multiple table hypothesis as a basis for the underwriting of substandard risks in life assurance.- The electrocardiogram in insurance medicine.- Right bundle branch block.- Some reflections on the significance of vectorcardiography in diagnosing coronary and hypertrophic heart disease.- Electrocardiographic practice in the United States.- The next decade in cardiovascular surgery.- Relationships between lipid and carbohydrate metabolism; their influence on the arterial wall.- A long term study of insured and declined diabetics.- The prognosis of lung sarcoidosis on the basis of catamnestic investigations.- What can be done to retard ageing and to increase expectation of life?.- Claim settlement problems in life assurance.- Author Index.