4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Chemical characterization of asbestos body cores by electron microprobe analysis
…show no marked chemical degradation even after prolonged biologic residence, whereas chrysotile asbestos cores are markedly degraded. Cores of asbestos bodies from the general population, from individuals with no known exposure, may consist of degraded chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…based on only 13 shipyard asbestosis deaths. Overall, shipyard insulators' mortality did not differ substantially from that of insulators in general. Second, in 1975 and 1976 the authors X-rayed 1000 volunteer workers at a shipyard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Historical background to the asbestos problem
…with the Cape asbestos field, and Doll's 1955 finding that men employed 20 or more years at a large asbestos works had 10 times the general population's lung cancer risk. The authors concluded that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Chrysotile asbestos: effects of human exposure
…exonerated the quarry's crushed rock as a carcinogen, and his claim that these workers' general health was comparable to that of Quebec Province as a whole. They noted that latent periods for asbestos-related malignancy…