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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Author reply: 'Response to: Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features' by Araki et al
…earlier study found pleural abnormalities in 1.5% of the cohort, which they suggested could be an index of asbestos exposure in the general population. They wrote that every case was confirmed by at least two…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features
The prevalence of pleural abnormalities in the general population is an epidemiologically important index of asbestos exposure, which has not been investigated since a radiography-based study in 1980. We examined 2633 chest CT scans (mean…