5 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Tobacco and asbestos: consistent treatment advocated
…smoking estimates based on 800 interviews were unstable, given only 7% to 10% mean differences in smoking between white male automotive workers and the white male general population. They also argued that the adjustment method might…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Apportionment of risk among environmental exposures: application to asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking
…in full to asbestos; the author noted that actual risk assessment would split it too. A table compared equal weights with excess-risk weights. The author concluded that the general formulas expressed the apportionment more clearly.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Detection of serum p53 protein in lung cancer patients
…with potential asbestos exposure), 23 unexposed matched hospital control subjects, 58 unmatched general population control subjects, and 4 people with nonmalignant lung disease using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and Western immunoblotting. Average levels of serum…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Spirometric abnormalities among asbestos insulation workers
…years after onset of exposure, 26 (7.4%) had FVC below 70% of predicted, a prevalence similar to that reported in nonexposed general populations. Prevalence increased with time from onset of exposure. Of the 117 workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Asbestos and tuberculosis in Trieste, Italy
…asbestos use appears to be unassociated with risk of tuberculosis. Potentiation of the risk of death from tuberculosis may require both a high risk of tuberculosis in the general community and intense personal exposure to asbestos.