Mortality risk prediction by an insurance company and long-term follow-up of 62,000 men.
BACKGROUND: Insurance companies use medical information to classify the mortality risk of applicants. Adding genetic tests to this assessment is currently being debated. This debate would be more meaningful, if results of present-day risk prediction were known. Therefore, we compared the predicted w...
Main Authors: | Eric J G Sijbrands, Erik Tornij, Sietske J Homsma |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2673682?pdf=render |
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