3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Mortality of brain tumors among asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada
…brain tumors in this cohort, somewhat more than were anticipated (18.0 such deaths were expected based on U.S. general population data, and 20.5 if smoking was taken into account). The excess was not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Environmental epidemiology. 3. Community effects of nonoccupational environmental asbestos exposure
…raised several open questions: unrecognized occupational exposure, whether the bodies were truly asbestos, whether general air pollution causes disease, and how to allow for smoking and long latency. They concluded that well-defined cohort studies with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1967
Asbestosis and neoplasia
…consecutive deaths among insulation workers (1943-1966), 17 (about 5%) were due to mesothelioma, against about 1 in 10,000 deaths in the general population. In Dresden, lung cancer deaths rose as deaths from severe asbestosis…