12 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Compensation of pleural mesothelioma in France: data from the French National Mesothelioma Surveillance Programme
…the Compensation Fund for Asbestos Victims (FIVA) were analyzed. Approximately 30% of subjects presenting with pleural mesothelioma, affiliated to the General National Health Insurance fund, neither sought recognition as an OD nor claimed for FIVA compensation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Malignant pleural mesothelioma associated with exposure to tremolite
…microscopy showed that rock and whitewash samples consisted primarily of asbestiform tremolite. Air sampling in two villages found no tremolite fibres in the general atmosphere. High concentrations were found in road dust clouds from a car…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Attributable risk in men in two French case-control studies on mesothelioma and asbestos
…B. After weighting subjects according to distribution of socio-economic status in the general population for controls and according to distribution of socio-economic status of cases registered by the French National Mesothelioma Surveillance Program, re…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Asbestos-related cancer risk in patients with asbestosis or pleural plaques
…Among asbestos-exposed individuals, those having radiographic evidence of pleural plaques are at increased risk for lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma, compared to the general population. However, there is no evidence that pleural plaque confers an…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Absence of multiplicative interactions between occupational lung carcinogens and tobacco smoking: a systematic review involving asbestos, crystalline silica and diesel engine exhaust emissions
…The silica studies disagreed on the additive scale. The authors concluded that, in general, there is no multiplicative interaction between these exposures and smoking, and that the evidence was insufficient to conclude on the additive scale…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Modelling prevalence and incidence of fibrosis and pleural plaques in asbestos-exposed populations for screening and follow-up: a cross-sectional study
…not duration, should be included in high-risk definitions for screening. They also concluded that short-interval CT follow-up for plaques seemed not warranted. They noted the volunteers were not representative of the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Environmental airborne tremolite asbestos pollution and pleural plaques in Afghanistan
…and that this hazard may be encountered in Afghanistan. They could not obtain detailed information on how common pleural plaques on chest X-rays are in the general population of the Kabul area and Loghar region.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Factors associated with cancer distress in the Asbestos Post-Exposure Survey (APEXS)
…asbestos will develop a disease was also associated with distress. The authors concluded that exposed subjects showed more distress than earlier studies had described. They noted their volunteer comparison group may not represent the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
CT scan screening is associated with increased distress among subjects of the APExS
…consequences was performed 6 months after the HRCT-scan examination (T2). PCQ scores were compared quantitatively (t-test, general linear model) and qualitatively (chi²-test, logistic regression) to screening results. Multivariate analyses were adjusted for gender…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Pleural mesothelioma and exposure to asbestos: evaluation from work histories and analysis of asbestos bodies in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid or lung tissue in 131 patients
…to asbestos, a large group of subjects seemed to have a history of exposure or lung retention of asbestos bodies suggestive of very low levels of cumulative exposure, similar to those described in the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Retrospective assessment of asbestos exposure--I. Case-control analysis in a study of lung cancer: efficiency of job-specific questionnaires and job exposure matrices
…the assessment obtained by the application of two job exposure matrices (JEM) to the job history. The study includes 391 incident male cases and the same number of controls from the general population, matched by sex…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Occupational asbestos exposure and digestive cancers - a cohort study
…occupationally exposed to asbestos. The incidence of digestive cancer was calculated from 1st January 1978 to 31st December 2004 and compared with levels among the local general population using Standardized Incidence Ratios. Asbestos exposure was assessed…