4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Prevalence of obstructive lung disease in a general population: relation to occupational title and exposure to some airborne agents
…benefit of reducing the healthy worker effect seen in studies of working populations. The prevalence of obstructive lung disease was examined in a Norwegian general population aged 18-73 in a two phased cross sectional survey…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Relation of occupational exposure to respiratory symptoms and asthma in a general population sample: self-reported versus interview-based exposure data
…was taken into account. The corresponding numbers for exposure to quartz were halved and lost their statistical significance when the misclassification was allowed for. In this general population sample, the self-reported occupational, airborne exposure data…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Assessment of the epidemiological data relating lung cancer to air pollution
…cancer likely greater than zero but unlikely to exceed 2% of all lung cancers, or 5 per 100,000 cases in urban males. The author concluded there was no reason to repeat such general-population studies.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Expiratory and inspiratory forced vital capacity and one-second forced volume in asymptomatic never-smokers in Norway
…objectives of this study were to examine within and between individual variation detected during forced expiratory (FE) and forced inspiratory (FI) manoeuvers in a general population and to investigate the dependence of these variables on age…