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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Pleural plaques in the general population
…pleural plaques to measure the impact of asbestos on the general population of Uppsala county, Sweden, which had a population of 250,782 in 1985. A general health survey invited all inhabitants aged 15 and over…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos-associated disease in employees of Devonport Dockyard
This paper, from Plymouth General Hospital, England, brought together surveys and follow-up studies of men at Devonport Dockyard, which employed some 15,000 men, after 1966. Past exposure had been to chrysotile and, in most…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
A comparison of asbestos burden in lung parenchyma, lymph nodes, and plaques
…plaques and pleura are not useful for mineral analysis, and they designed the study to test it. Tissue was collected at autopsy at the General Hospital of Monfalcone, Italy, from eight former shipyard workers (seven men…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Asbestosis and primary intrathoracic neoplasms
This paper from Britain's Factory Inspectorate analyzed death certificates recording asbestosis. Registrars General for England and Wales and for Scotland supplied the certificates routinely. It also briefly reviewed early reports linking asbestosis with lung cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Absence of evidence for a significant background incidence of diffuse malignant mesothelioma apart from asbestos exposure
…1940s. One must conclude that the background level of diffuse malignant mesothelioma in Europe and in the United States prior to 1930 was extremely low. No case was detected at the Massachusetts General Hospital until 1946.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
The long-lasting legacy of industrial carcinogens: the lesson of asbestos. Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Lecture, 1995
…Lecture, given in 1995. Much of it is the author's general discussion of cancer and industrial carcinogens. Its main original content was a series of Italian mesothelioma cases collected by the European Ramazzini Foundation. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Limitations in drawing etiologic inferences based on measurement of asbestos fibers from lung tissue
…exposure and disease cause from lung fiber and asbestos body counts. The author argued that autopsy subjects do not represent general-population deaths and that counts vary several-fold within one lung. Laboratory methods also differ…
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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 · 1979
What to do about the asbestos currently in ships and industry?
…the author cited studies indicating that essentially all adult lungs contain asbestos fibers, while mesothelioma is rare in the general population. The author stated that approximately 1.5 million Royal Navy seamen and officers served for…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Asbestos fibers contributing to the induction of human malignant mesothelioma
…tissue were chrysotile fibers. 5. The average number of asbestos fibers in both lung and mesothelial tissues was two orders of magnitude greater than the number found in the general population. 6. The majority of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Histological characteristics of mesothelioma associated with asbestos
…10 of them found among 307 consecutive deaths. Seven came from 26 consecutive asbestosis cases among 2500 autopsies at Middlesex General and Barnert Memorial Hospitals. Twelve came from 45 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology cases checked…
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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 · 1989
An industrial hygienist's perspective on generic standards
…The author, an industrial hygienist, argued that 1990s workplace regulation should concentrate mainly on "generic" standards for toxic materials in general, while keeping a way to add substance-specific requirements where appropriate. The author pointed to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos exposure and fire fighting
…that fire fighters are at risk of asbestos-induced pleural and pulmonary fibrosis independent of other exposure. They noted that 9% pleural thickening exceeded the roughly 2% reported in general population studies. They recommended reducing exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Dose-response relationships for asbestos-related disease: implications for hygiene standards. Part II. Mortality
…first exposure and duration were shown, with gastrointestinal cancer and asbestosis set aside. The author concluded that occupational exposure must be rigorously monitored, but that risk to the general population is likely to be extremely low.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos fibers are mutagenic after all: new signs of orthodoxy for a paradoxical group of carcinogens
…held that they lacked clear genotoxic potential. He summarized earlier work. There was general agreement that asbestos fibers induced aneuploidy and chromosome breaks. Results on sister chromatid exchanges disagreed. Mammalian cell specific-locus assays had reported…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Radiological abnormalities and asbestos exposure among custodians of the New York City Board of Education
…New York City Board of Education underwent examination from 1985 through 1987 for asbestos-related disease and other general medical conditions by the clinical staff of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine of the Mount…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
French mesothelioma register
…the ages of 47 and 41 years, respectively, the annual death rate was higher in those with mesothelioma than in those of the general population. The proportions of mesothelioma patients who had experienced occupational, para-occupational…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mineral fiber content of lung tissue in patients with environmental exposures: household contacts vs. building occupants
…occupationally exposed individuals. In contrast, our studies of four occupants of buildings with asbestos-containing materials indicate that these individuals often have pulmonary asbestos burdens indistinguishable from the general nonoccupationally exposed population. However, one such building…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Mortality among shipyard workers in Genoa, Italy
…there exist different levels of exposure to noxious substances. Two control groups were selected: the general male population of Genoa and all male employees (462) of San Martino Hospital, Genoa for the same period of time…