Weight and metabolic
Height and weight sit on nearly every application. Here is how the numbers are actually used.
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Height and weight sit on essentially every life insurance application. Insurers use them as one input among many rather than as a pass or fail test, and the thresholds vary noticeably from one insurer to the next, which is one of the clearer cases where where you apply changes the answer.
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