6 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos fibers in the general population
…pleura. Counts did not differ significantly by sex or smoking. The authors concluded that substantial asbestos, mostly too small to form asbestos bodies, is present in the average urban lung and probably reflects general environmental contamination.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Analysis of the cores of asbestos bodies from members of the general population: patients with probable low-degree exposure to asbestos
…to 9,000 of such bodies/g of lung tissue, a concentration frequently found in manual laborers in the general population who are not primary asbestos workers. All of the 123 bodies examined by electron diffraction…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Re: Mesothelioma in railroad machinists
…800,000 tremolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The general-population 95th percentile for amosite plus crocidolite was 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The authors stated that the amosite plus crocidolite values…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Current issues in the pathologic and mineralogic diagnosis of asbestos-induced disease
…as the main problem. The author wrote that a million chrysotile fibers per gram of dry lung fit general-population background levels. A million amosite or crocidolite fibers per gram almost certainly indicated substantial occupational exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Fiber counting and analysis in the diagnosis of asbestos-related disease
…large numbers. Numbers of asbestos bodies markedly underestimate total numbers of fibers present in lung. In patients from the general population, the mean number of asbestos fibers is about 1 X 10(6)/g dry lung;…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Long fibre asbestos in a chrysotile textile worker
…worker and a less pronounced but probably significant shift for the tremolite group. They noted general agreement that long fibres are associated with disease. On that basis they concluded that their findings offered an explanation for…