Health hazards of asbestos

Our plain-English summary of Health hazards of asbestos (Lancet, 1966).

The study

• Journal: Lancet
• Published: 1966;1(7436):530-1
• Cited by: 2 articles, as counted by NIH iCite
• Read it: PubMed
• In J-M's library: Johns-Manville's company medical library held a copy (J-M no. 002614).

In plain English

This record cites an item titled "Health hazards of asbestos" in The Lancet, 1966, for which the supplied citation lists no author. The text supplied with the record is not that item. It comes from the November 1977 issue of the journal Environmental Health. It contains an article with the same title by two environmental health officers of Leicester City Council, followed by a separate article, "Asbestos Hazards", by the Chief Environmental Health Officer of Middlesbrough Borough Council. The Leicester article is not a research study. It opens by describing a step Leicester City Council took in June 1976 concerning asbestos in premises the council owned, leased or occupied, in a passage the scan has left partly unreadable. It then gives the authors' recommendations for dealing with defective asbestos in buildings and precautions for handling it. Because the supplied text does not match the citation, this summary reports no design, findings, numbers or conclusions for the 1966 Lancet item. The original Lancet text is needed before that item can be summarized.

We wrote this plain-English summary from the full article with the help of AI, and a second AI model checked each sentence against the article. It is not the authors' wording; the abstract and the article are their own account.

What the study did and found

• Design: Cannot be determined for the cited 1966 Lancet item. The supplied text is a 1977 local-authority guidance article, not a research study.

Topics

The National Library of Medicine indexes this study under subjects our site covers: Asbestosis.

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