973 results for “General Electric”, page 15 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Cancer mortality in a surveillance cohort of German males formerly exposed to asbestos
…been exposed to chrysotile. Through April 30, 2007, 128 men died. Compared with German men in general, overall deaths were lower than expected (SMR 0.59, 95% CI 0.49-0.70). However, 15 men died…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Occupational exposures and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus
…to 47.0) for SLE-related hospitalization compared with all other hospitalized patients. The only study of workplace solvents and SLE found no association for solvents as a general category. Data on specific solvents were lacking…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos in lung tissue
…as the level identifying asbestos exposure. The author wrote that in the author's laboratory, 100 asbestos bodies per 5 g was the upper limit in the general population of Houston, Texas and Durham, North Carolina…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Diseases associated with asbestos exposure. Diagnostic perspectives in forensic pathology
…from highest to lowest risk: direct occupational, indirect occupational, neighborhood, and household and family. They said the risk from general environmental exposure was not known. They described pleural effusions, pleural plaques, asbestosis, pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
A case-control study of the relationship between the risk of colon cancer in men and exposures to occupational agents
…who were diagnosed with colon cancer between 1979 and 1985. They compared them with 2047 control men: 1514 with other cancers and 533 from the general population. Chemists and industrial hygienists turned each man's job…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Computed tomography of localized pleural mesothelioma
…form. The scans were done before surgery during 1982 and 1983, and the authors worked in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The patients were five men and one woman aged 51 to 68. Two…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Occupational risk factors for Alzheimer disease: a case-control study
…including asbestos, were linked to Alzheimer disease. It compared 170 patients clinically diagnosed with probable or possible Alzheimer disease at two Sydney hospitals with 170 controls from general practices, matched for age and sex. Interviews took…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Re: Mesothelioma in railroad machinists
…800,000 tremolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The general-population 95th percentile for amosite plus crocidolite was 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The authors stated that the amosite plus crocidolite values…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Asbestos and its lethal legacy
…Doll's 1955 study of asbestos-textile workers, which estimated a lung cancer risk ten times that of the general population among those exposed for 20 years or more, and which the sponsoring company tried to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Environmental and occupational health hazards associated with the presence of asbestos in brake linings and pads (1900 to present): a "state-of-the-art" review
…to 2002 and summarized exposure and health studies of brake mechanics and friction product manufacturing workers. The work was primarily funded by Ford, DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, companies involved in brake-dust litigation. In NIOSH surveys…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Update on asbestos in schools
…and that deteriorating surfaces were releasing fibers into the air. They cited a 1982 General Accounting Office report finding no assurance that school occupants were adequately protected. They gave two reasons: the 1980 school asbestos law…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Electron diffraction patterns of U.I.C.C. asbestos samples
…electron diffraction patterns was studied using a double-tilt stage. Rotation did not have a nurked effect on the general pattern of weak and strong spectra. It has been shown that electron diffraction nlethod may ha…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos-related diseases in the Federal Republic of Germany
…and 85 (78 men, seven women) had died. Compared with the age- and sex-specific pattern of deaths in the general population, the share of deaths from lung cancer (17 cases, standardized proportional mortality ratio 3…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Malignant pleural mesothelioma five years after domestic exposure to blue asbestos
…average 35-40 years). The man presented with a 1-year history of weight loss, with 6 months of night sweats and general malaise. His erythrocyte sedimentation rate was 128 mm/h. Chest X-ray and…
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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 · 2012
Occupational exposures to asbestos, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and solvents, and cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx: a quantitative literature review
…risk. On the other hand, no association was found with exposure to solvents in general (meta-RR 0.98; 95% CI 0.77-1.23) but the strong heterogeneity between studies suggested differences in exposures. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos: a clear and present danger--a UK perspective
…heard the appeals in May 2002 and reversed that decision. The author wrote that a UK mesothelioma victim might receive £40k to 50k in general damages for pain and suffering, plus care costs and financial losses…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Comparison of exposure assessment methods for occupational carcinogens in a multi-centre lung cancer case-control study
…re-applied to all study subjects. Third, an independent general population JEM (GPJEM) was created by occupational exposure experts not involved in the original study, and applied to study subjects. Results from these methods were compared…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Determination of carbon monoxide in metal carbonyl complexes
…in acetone worked for several complexes but was unsatisfactory for the cyclopentadienyl iron dicarbonyl dimer. Iodine in pyridine was unsatisfactory as a general method. The authors stated that the compounds tested were assumed to be pure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
RE: Mesothelioma and lung tumors attributable to asbestos among petroleum workers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2000. 37:275-282
…rate ratios: excluding "contract workers", the practice of "tolling", and using general-population rather than unexposed company workers as controls for standardized mortality ratios. They noted a 1960 report, co-authored by Texaco's medical director…