1.   For these patients, not operating carries a higher mortality risk.

2.   For example, VALIC recognizes that a life interest in real property is not insurance, although it imposes a mortality risk on the purchaser.

3.   Some conventional debt instruments similarly impose mortality risk.

4.   Surprisingly, having a family history of breast cancer did not affect the mortality risk associated with hormone use.

5.   The lowered mortality risk among those who took hormones lasted only a short while among the women who stopped taking them.

6.   This type of late abortion poses the least mortality risk to the mother.

7.   VALIC further argues that annuities functionally resemble life insurance because some annuities place mortality risk on the parties.