6 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
The relationship between respiratory impairment and asbestos-related pleural abnormality in an active work force
With the general improvement in environmental controls in workplaces where asbestos is used, an increasing number of workers are seen who exhibit isolated pleural plaques. The question as to whether these are associated with respiratory impairment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Pleural mesothelioma incidence in Europe: evidence of some deceleration in the increasing trends
To summarize the geographical and temporal variations in incidence of pleural mesothelioma in Europe, using the extensive data available from European general cancer registries, and consider these in light of recent trends in asbestos extraction, use…
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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 · 2005
Asbestos-related diseases in Italy: epidemiologic evidences and public health issues
…is presented. These systems evidence exposures to asbestos and relative risks for populations exposed in work environments and also in the general environment, and provide objective data to identify sources of exposure and for risk management…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Mortality in a cohort of vermiculite miners exposed to fibrous amphibole in Libby, Montana
…a 14% increase in mortality for mine workers exposed occupationally to 100 f/ml.y or about 3.2% for a general population exposed for 50 years to an ambient concentration of 0.1 f/ml…