4 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 · 1991
Mesothelioma in the London area
…to see whether the link with asbestos held in an urban setting. The team used hospital ward notes, the patients' general practitioners, and home interviews with surviving relatives, mostly carried out by social worker Hilda Thompson…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Predictions of mortality from mesothelial tumours in asbestos factory workers
…mortality and somewhat higher for women. The highest number of deaths from mesothelial tumours will occur during the 1980s, thereafter the numbers will decline because of the decreasing size of the cohort resulting from general mortality.