Sentences with phrase «combining health impairments»

For example, combining health impairments such as obesity, heart disease, or tobacco use will greatly increase your premiums, since the health risks are exponentially compounded when adding to the diabetes.

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While still a resident in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a junior faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health, the economist - turned - doctor researched various attempts since the 1960s to create a combined measure of impairment, illness and death.