You can no longer be excluded from buying health insurance or be charged
more than a healthy person of the same age if you have a pre-existing medical condition.
Those that opt for a no examination insurance policy where they only have to answer questions will pay considerably more
than a healthy person who takes the exam.
Patients with major depressive disorder, for example, have been found to fear and suppress both negative and positive emotions more
than healthy people do.
That was in line with earlier studies finding, for instance, that people with one form of MS have different gut
bacteria than healthy people.
Furthermore, psychiatric patients often react more strongly to social
rejection than healthy persons and this can have negative consequences for the development and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
This results, in the diabetic going to the bathroom a bit more
often than a healthy person would, which leads to passing over five liters of urine per day.
A less healthy person will live a shorter
period than a healthy person and therefore will get a higher payment over the statistically shorter life - span.
Type 1 diabetics are dependent on insulin injections to manage their blood sugar and are at risk for ketoacidosis, which as a life - threatening condition where there is dangerously high levels of ketones — much higher
than a healthy person in ketosis can actually achieve — in their blood.
In addition, the scientists observed that human beings suffering from insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease have a greater amount of active DPP4 in their
blood than healthy people.
Using lymphocyte samples from both pediatric lupus patients and healthy children of similar ages, the team found more Xist mis - localization in lupus patients and some evidence that they were more
likely than healthy people to have two copies of immunity - related genes.
Participants with metabolic syndrome absorbed less vitamin
E than healthy people in the study, which concerns researchers because these individuals probably receive less of the beneficial antioxidant properties of vitamin E.
Koprowski says his group plans to investigate whether MS sufferers have lower uric acid
levels than healthy people and whether gout patients have a lower MS incidence.
Combined with postmortem analyses of brain tissue, these studies have demonstrated that people with AD have far more ß - amyloid plaques in their
brains than healthy people, at least as a general rule.
In the early 1980s, scientists found that patients suffering from schizophrenia and manic depression were up to 10 times more likely to have antibodies to the
virus than healthy people, suggesting that infection might contribute to those diseases.
Not only do patients with alcohol dependency have lower levels of
REG3G than healthy people, they also have more bacteria growing there.
«We found that people who carry progranulin mutations were nearly twice as likely to have retinal lipofuscin
deposits than healthy people,» shared Michael Ward, MD, PhD, a former staff scientist at Gladstone and lead author of the study, as well as adjunct assistant professor of neurology at UCSF.
We know that brain shrinkage (also called atrophy) is a natural result of ageing, and also that this rate of shrinkage accelerates when someone has Alzheimer's disease, with the brains of those who die after years with dementia being dramatically
smaller than healthy people's.
In one study so far, long distance runners actually had more silent coronary artery
disease than healthy people who did not run marathons.
It also constructs collagen proteins which prevent ageing and keep the skin strong and this study found that acne patients have 40 % less vitamin
C than healthy people.
Pregnant women, vegetarians, people with some health conditions such as Crohn's disease, IBS, H. Pylori infection, hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's thyroiditis are at a significantly higher risk for B12
deficiency than healthy people.
A defendant will be held to be liable for all of the damages that resulted from his or her negligent or wrongful act regardless of whether the plaintiff had preexisting conditions that made it likelier that he or she would be injured more
severely than a healthy person would.
Unhealthy people are, statistically speaking, more likely to
die than healthy people, so their coverage needs are, theoretically, more pressing.
While the life insurance industry regularly covers other conditions and diseases like Heart Disease and Cancer (at a higher
cost than healthier people).
Patients with severe symptoms have more immune molecules circulating in their blood than healthy people
Researchers confronted volunteers with such scenarios and found that those with VMPC injury were three times more
likely than healthy people to advocate throwing the person to certain death for the good of the many.
«If insurers can charge sick people higher
premiums than healthy people, they would add a surcharge to premiums that reflects this additional cost,» Spiro says.
When two diseases were present in an individual, neither of which were musculoskeletal conditions, their healthcare costs were two times
higher than a healthy person.
Interphone compared surveyed cell phone use in 6,420 people with brain tumors to that of 7,658 healthy people in 13 developed countries — Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the U.K. — to try to determine whether people with brain tumors had used their cell phones
more than healthy people, an association that might suggest that cell phones caused the tumors.
If you are over 50, a smoker, and / or have moderate health troubles, you may be able to get life insurance but you will have to pay more for
it than a healthier person or a non-smoker would.
One might expect unhealthy people to apply for life insurance more
than healthy people, since they're at higher risk of no longer being there to support their families.