Is this Risk Insurable? A Response to Sebastian Schich

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Sebastian

The work with Sebastian has centered around an attempt to correlate certain factors of efficiency in adolescence and an analysis of increased Binet I. Q. with increased physical fitness. Sebastian comes of American stock of average social status. His parents are of average mentality. There is no history of specific disease, but for some ten years the family finances have been at a very low leve...

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Is grandmultiparity a significant risk factor in this new millennium?

The aim of the study was to assess the outcomes of grandmultiparous women receiving the current obstetric care in Maternity Hospital Kuala Lumpur. Recent data regarding some of the complications are conflicting and the significance of grandmultiparity is now in question. Therefore, a retrospective cohort study of 237 grandmultiparous and 254 multiparous women were undertaken. Chi-squared and t ...

Pulse pressure: Is this a clinically useful risk factor?

Again, the Framingham group has provided another surprise to the medical community with publication of its longitudinal follow-up study of persons over 50 years of age that has linked cardiovascular (and in particular coronary) mortality with pulse pressure.1 In this study, mortality was related independently with initial systolic, diastolic, and pulse pressure, but the strongest association wa...