Renovation and renewal

Our plain-English summary of Renovation and renewal, by A. Katelaris (The Medical Journal of Australia, 2011).

The study

• Author: A. Katelaris
• Journal: The Medical Journal of Australia
• Published: 2011;195(5):245
• Type of article: Editorial, Comment
• Cited by: 1 article, as counted by NIH iCite
• Read it: PubMed · Publisher

In plain English

This is not a research study. It is a short Editor's choice column by the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia, introducing articles in the 5 September 2011 issue, and it reports no data of its own. The author described a study by Olsen and colleagues in the same issue. The column said that study gave evidence from Western Australia that an increasing number of people were being diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma after asbestos exposure during home renovation. It added that the time between exposure and disease seemed, at that stage, shorter than for other sources of exposure. The column also summarised an accompanying editorial by Gordon and Leigh. That editorial called for centralised mesothelioma registries and noted that there were no systematic warnings about asbestos risks in homes. The author concluded that all doctors, and all Australians, needed to be aware of this rise in mesothelioma associated with home renovation. Much of the column was about the journal's redesign, not asbestos.

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: Editorial column (Editor's choice) introducing other articles in the issue; no original research
• Who was studied: None studied in this article; the column describes a separate study by Olsen and colleagues using evidence from Western Australia
• Exposure: Asbestos exposure during home renovation, as discussed in the articles the column introduces; no fiber types are named
• The authors' conclusion: The author concluded that all doctors and all Australians need to be aware of the rise in malignant mesothelioma associated with home renovation, and called the lack of systematic home asbestos warnings mystifying

Topics

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

Related studies

• Increasing incidence of malignant mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos during home maintenance and renovation — N.J. Olsen, P.J. Franklin, et al. (2011)
• Asbestos exposure during home renovation in New South Wales — E.K. Park, D.H. Yates, et al. (2013)
• Asbestos exposure during home renovation in New South Wales — R.A. Lemen, A.L. Frank, et al. (2014)
• Asbestos exposure during home renovation in New South Wales — A.R. Johnson, D.H. Yates (2014)
• Asbestos risks: Manville tries to pass the buck — S. Budiansky (1983)
• Airborne exposure concentrations during asbestos abatement of ceiling and wall plaster — J.H. Lange, K.W. Thomulka (2002)

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