11 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Clinical findings among asbestos workers in U.S.: influence of cigarette smoking
All members of a large union were invited to participate in a study of potentially adverse effects of asbestos exposure. Clinical findings among 1,117 workers (90% of those eligible for examination) are presented in this…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Mortality experience of insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1943--1976
…New Jersey union locals on January 1, 1943, followed to December 31, 1976, plus 833 men who joined these locals in 1943-1962. The other comprised all 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Symptomatic benign pleural effusions among asbestos insulation workers: residual radiographic abnormalities
This cross-sectional survey examined 2815 asbestos insulation workers from a union cohort in the United States and Canada, each with 30 or more years since first exposure, in 1981 to 1983. The article does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos-associated deaths among insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1967-1987
…insulation workers, the authors reported 20 years of mortality follow-up of insulators. The cohort comprised 17,800 men enrolled in the insulators' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967. They were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Use of death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: variations in discordance of different asbestos-associated diseases on best evidence ascertainment
This was a prospective study of all 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. They were followed from January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Mortality of brain tumors among asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada
This prospective cohort study followed 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, recording deaths through December 31, 1979. The men mainly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Decline in death rates among asbestos insulation workers 1967-1986 associated with diminution of work exposure to asbestos
This prospective study followed the mortality of 17,800 men who belonged to the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986. They had used insulation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Evaluation of selection bias in a cross-sectional survey
…insulation workers who took part in a medical survey differed from those who did not. In 1967 the authors enrolled 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Hazards of lung biopsy in asbestos workers
…asbestos insulation workers had lung biopsies and what happened afterwards. It drew on a union cohort of 17 800 insulation workers in the United States and Canada. Of 2907 living members who had reached 30 years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Asbestosis: interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and pleural fibrosis in a cohort of asbestos insulation workers: influence of cigarette smoking
…first medical examination of 1,117 New York-New Jersey asbestos insulation workers, who were 89.4% of the 1,249 eligible union members. The films were reread using the 1971 International Labour Office classification without…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos exposure, cigarette smoking and death rates
…effects of cigarette smoking and occupational asbestos exposure on death rates. Members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada answered smoking questionnaires in 1966, and 17,800 men alive on January 1…