PROVIDENCE – A survey of life insurance applicants from Policygenius, an online insurance marketplace, ranked Rhode Island as the eighth-healthiest in the nation.
The survey looked at the percentage of life insurance applicants that use tobacco or have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea, asthma or depression. Overall, lower percentages of life insurance applicants have any of those health conditions compared to the national average.
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Each state was ranked by the percentage of life insurance applicants that have one of the health conditions. Rhode Island came in eighth with 7.1 percent of its life insurance applicants having a health condition. Montana and Wyoming tied for first with 5.7 percent of applicants with a health condition, while North Dakota came in last with 12.4 percent of applicants with a health condition.
Rhode Island was the state with the highest percentage of applicants with a history of asthma at 11.9 percent, and the state with the third-lowest percentage of applicants with high blood pressure at 7.1 percent.
Lauren Aratani is a PBN contributing writer.
