973 results for “General Electric”, page 2 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos fibers in the general population
…pleura. Counts did not differ significantly by sex or smoking. The authors concluded that substantial asbestos, mostly too small to form asbestos bodies, is present in the average urban lung and probably reflects general environmental contamination.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
US surgeon general ignites furor with findings on smoking in the workplace
…news article, not a research study. A freelance writer described the US Surgeon General's December 1985 Smoking and Health report on cancer and chronic lung disease in the workplace, and the reaction to it. According…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Variation in number of general practitioner consultations before hospital referral for cancer: findings from the 2010 National Cancer Patient Experience Survey in England
…We aimed to examine variation in the number of pre-referral consultations with a general practitioner between patients with different cancers and sociodemographic characteristics. We analysed data from 41,299 patients with 24 different cancers who…
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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 · 1992
Performance of two general job-exposure matrices in a study of lung cancer morbidity in the Zutphen cohort
…of lung cancer morbidity incidence. The two general job-exposure matrices generally disagreed with regard to exposure classification because of differences in exposure assessment and level of detail of the job axis. When compared with self…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Knowledge and awareness of asbestos risk among General Practitioners: Validation of a questionnaire in an area with a high incidence of asbestos-related diseases
Given the critical role of general practitioners (GPs) in the early diagnosis and management of asbestos-related diseases (ARDs), and the significant history of asbestos fibres pollution in Alessandria Local Health Authority (ASL AL), this project…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
The Brazilian System for Monitoring Workers and General Population Exposed to Asbestos: Development, Challenges, and Opportunities for Workers' Health Surveillance
…especially in lower-income countries. This paper aims to present the recently developed Brazilian system for monitoring workers and general population exposed to asbestos (Datamianto), and to discuss the main challenges and opportunities for workers' health…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Asbestos fibers and pleural plaques in a general autopsy population
It has been claimed that symmetric lower zone pleural or diaphargmatic plaques are markers of asbestos exposure both in asbestos workers and the general population. In this study, total pulmonary asbestos burden was analyzed for 29…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Asbestos: toxicology and risk assessment for the general population in The Netherlands
…of Integrated Criteria Documents for priority compounds in The Netherlands, the possible health effects of oral and inhalatory exposure to asbestos for the general population were evaluated. It was concluded from the results of experiments in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
The implosion of the Calgary General Hospital: ambient air quality issues
This study reported air monitoring around the October 4, 1998 implosion of seven Calgary General Hospital (Bow Valley Centre) buildings in Calgary, Alberta. Beforehand, all friable and some nonfriable asbestos had been removed. Samples came from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Nonasbestos pulmonary mineral fibers in the general population
…sex, or smoking. It is concluded that (1) substantial numbers of nonasbestos fibers are present in lungs of the general population. Most of these fibers are short and of low aspect ratio; and (2) by phase…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Prevalence of obstructive lung disease in a general population: relation to occupational title and exposure to some airborne agents
…benefit of reducing the healthy worker effect seen in studies of working populations. The prevalence of obstructive lung disease was examined in a Norwegian general population aged 18-73 in a two phased cross sectional survey…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
The asbestos-asbestosis exposure-response relationship: a cohort study of the general working population
…observed increasing risk with increasing cumulative exposure in the inception population. This study found exposure-response relations between cumulative asbestos exposure and incident asbestosis in the Danish general working population with mainly low-level exposed occupations…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1963
Case 62-1963: Case Records Of The Massachusetts General Hospital
This article is a clinicopathological case record from the Massachusetts General Hospital. It discusses one patient, a fifty-six-year-old plumber admitted because of chest pain. He had worked as a plumber for forty years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1936
Occupational Disease Compensation: Data Indicative Of Cost For Occupational Diseases In General, And Of Silicosis, Asbestosis And Dust Diseases In Particular
This article was an insurance report, not a medical study. The author, general manager of a casualty and surety insurers' association, described what workers' compensation insurance for occupational diseases, especially silicosis and asbestosis, was costing. In…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1956
Clinico-Pathological Conference: Vii. Montreal General Hospital, April 19, 1956
This clinico-pathological conference report from the Montreal General Hospital (April 19, 1956) described one patient. A 66-year-old white man was admitted with six weeks of cough, three weeks of shortness of breath and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Asbestos Bodies Burden in the Autopsy Lung Tissue from General Thai Population
…contaminate in ambient indoor and outdoor environments. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the current prevalence and volume of AB load in general Thai population. Lung tissues were obtained from 200 autopsy cases…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Lung Cancer and Pleural Mesothelioma Risk Assessment for the General Population Exposed to Asbestos in Different Regions of Tehran, Iran
This study did not count actual cases of disease. It used air-monitoring results to estimate cancer risk for the general population of Tehran, Iran. The authors took yearly average outdoor asbestos fiber concentrations for 2011…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
An analysis of OSHA inspections assessing contaminant exposures in general medical and surgical hospitals
This study analyzed data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Chemical Exposure Health Database to assess contaminant exposures in general medical and surgical hospitals. Seventy-five inspections conducted in these hospitals from 2005…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Analysis of the cores of asbestos bodies from members of the general population: patients with probable low-degree exposure to asbestos
…to 9,000 of such bodies/g of lung tissue, a concentration frequently found in manual laborers in the general population who are not primary asbestos workers. All of the 123 bodies examined by electron diffraction…