12 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes as risk factors for asbestos-related malignant mesothelioma in a general population study
This population-based case-control study asked whether inherited variants in four DNA repair genes (XRCC1, XRCC3, XPD and OGG1) were linked to malignant mesothelioma of the pleura. It was set in Casale Monferrato, Italy, where an asbestos cement…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Peritoneal mesothelioma and asbestos exposure: a population-based case-control study in Lombardy, Italy
…to its rarity, PeM has rarely been investigated in community-based studies. We examined the association between asbestos exposure and PeM risk in a general population in Lombardy, Italy. From the regional mesothelioma registry, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
A genome-wide association study for malignant mesothelioma risk
This genome-wide association study looked for inherited DNA variants (SNPs) linked to malignant mesothelioma risk. The authors compared 428 mesothelioma patients from Western Australia and Queensland with 1269 general-population controls from Busselton, Western Australia…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Does exposure to asbestos cause ovarian cancer? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis
…The authors searched MEDLINE from 1950 to December 2008 and found 14 cohort studies and 2 case-control studies that reported on ovarian cancer in women exposed to asbestos at work or from their general environment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Risk factors for malignant mesothelioma in people with no known exposure to asbestos
…histories. Over 9 years, 38 cases and 134 hospital controls with conditions unrelated to asbestos (65 with other cancers, 69 with general medical conditions) were interviewed about their histories. An industrial hygienist, unaware of diagnoses, coded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Germline mutations in DNA repair genes predispose asbestos-exposed patients to malignant pleural mesothelioma
…lifetime asbestos exposure had been estimated from interviews about exposure at work, at home and in the general environment. The authors sequenced 94 cancer-related genes from blood samples and compared the results with 96 Italian…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Gender differences in pleural mesothelioma occurrence in Lombardy and Piedmont, Italy
…exposure in men translated into a 7 to 10 year advancement in mesothelioma occurrence. They noted that exposure information was not available for the general population, so rates by actual asbestos exposure could not be calculated.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Exposure-Response Analyses of Asbestos and Lung Cancer Subtypes in a Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies
…asbestos exposure and assessed the joint effect of asbestos exposure and smoking by sex and lung cancer subtype in general population studies. We pooled 14 case-control studies conducted in 1985-2010 in Europe and Canada…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and occupational and non-occupational asbestos exposure: a case-control study with quantitative risk assessment
…Monferrato (north west Italy) is an area with an exceptionally high incidence of mesothelioma caused by asbestos contamination at work and in the general environment from the asbestos-cement Eternit plant that was operational until 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Asbestos fibre burden in the lungs of patients with mesothelioma who lived near asbestos-cement factories
…residence to both plants. To provide information on the intensity of environmental asbestos exposure, in the general population living around these factories, through the evaluation of the lung fibre burden in mesothelioma patients. We analysed by…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
The Wittenoom legacy
…products in Western Australia. As a result, the state has recorded a higher malignant-mesothelioma mortality rate than in any other Australian state and in any defined general population in the world. Thus, the legacy of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Multicentric study on malignant pleural mesothelioma and non-occupational exposure to asbestos
…A dose-response pattern appeared with intensity of both sources of exposure. It is suggested that low-dose exposure to asbestos at home or in the general environment carries a measurable risk of malignant pleural mesothelioma.