Abstract
Persons contracting life insurance are often rather young people. Thanks to insulin young people with diabetes can now survive for long periods. In fact they live long enough to develop complications. These complications are non-specific ones, diabetic macroangiopathy, which is the common form of arteriosclerosis occurring with a somewhat higher frequency in the diabetic population and specific ones, diabetic microangiopathy and diabetic neuropathy. For young patients with a long life expectancy the latter are the more threatening.
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Lauvaux, J.P. (1980). Life Insurance Risks and Diabetes. In: Tanner, E., Hefti, M.L. (eds) Annals of Life Insurance Medicine 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67629-1_7
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