4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Compensation of pleural mesothelioma in France: data from the French National Mesothelioma Surveillance Programme
…the Compensation Fund for Asbestos Victims (FIVA) were analyzed. Approximately 30% of subjects presenting with pleural mesothelioma, affiliated to the General National Health Insurance fund, neither sought recognition as an OD nor claimed for FIVA compensation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Malignant pleural mesothelioma associated with exposure to tremolite
…microscopy showed that rock and whitewash samples consisted primarily of asbestiform tremolite. Air sampling in two villages found no tremolite fibres in the general atmosphere. High concentrations were found in road dust clouds from a car…
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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 · 2000
Computer modeling of population exposure to a carcinogen: the example of asbestos and mesothelioma mortality in France
…since exposure, and age. When exposure to a carcinogenic agent and its impact in terms of morbidity and mortality are modeled on the scale of the general population, individual exposures must often be estimated. If appropriate…