4 results for “General Electric”
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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 · 2013
Reply: No indication that mineral wool causes mesothelioma
…wrong population. According to the author, both cases and controls came from the French general population, and the two sets of cases (1987–1996 and 1998–2006) showed no significant differences in socioeconomic status. The author…
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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 · 2015
Lung cancer risk among workers in the construction industry: results from two case-control studies in Montreal
…In most previous studies, risks among construction workers were compared with general populations including blue and white collar workers. The main objectives of this study were to assess whether construction workers experience excess lung cancer risk…