3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Combined effect of asbestos exposure and smoking on mortality from lung cancer in factory workers
…from hospital records, family doctors and relatives. Lung-cancer deaths were compared with the numbers expected from general-population rates adjusted for smoking. Workers with low-to-moderate exposure showed no significant excess, whether they smoked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Combined effect of asbestos and smoking on mortality from lung cancer and mesothelioma in factory workers
…Deaths were tracked to 1980. There was no unexposed comparison group, so lung cancer deaths were compared with numbers expected from death rates in the general population of the region, adjusted for smoking. After this adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Validation of death certificates in asbestos workers
…Validation of death certificates in asbestos workers. The Registrar General has supplied the certified cause of death of 436 past workers in an asbestos factory. An attempt was made to follow up the 301 (69%) deaths…