985 results for “General Electric”, page 27 of 50
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
RE: Asbestos in brakes: exposure and risk of disease
…cannot be defended. The letter discloses that the author has served as an expert witness in friction brake litigation, with the author's employer receiving funding for this work from Ford, General Motors and Daimler Chrysler.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers 1955
…was a specific industrial hazard of certain asbestos workers and that the average risk among men employed for 20 or more years has been of the order of 10 times that experienced by the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Effects of tobacco smoking on findings in chest computed tomography among asbestos-exposed workers
…The authors concluded that CT can detect changes due to smoking at an early stage. They noted that there were only 18 never-smokers and that the results cannot be applied directly to the general population.
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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 · 2004
Assessment of environmental and domestic exposure to tremolite in New Caledonia
…concluded that the whitewash may produce high airborne fiber levels and lung contents comparable with occupational settings. They noted that samples came from sick patients and probably did not reflect the general population's lung burden.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Re: Evaluation of the size and type of free particulates collected from unused asbestos-containing brake components as related to potential for respirability
…raise concerns about historical exposures of automotive mechanics. The authors disclosed that their research was primarily funded by Ford, DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, and that some of them had been expert witnesses in brake-repair litigation.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Asbestos related disease in Barrow-in-Furness
…carcinoma deaths, and 13 versus 2 mesothelioma deaths. Autoantibody levels in 160 men with plaques did not differ significantly from those in the general British population. The author concluded that shipyard workers with plaques, without fibrosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Environmental airborne tremolite asbestos pollution and pleural plaques in Afghanistan
…and that this hazard may be encountered in Afghanistan. They could not obtain detailed information on how common pleural plaques on chest X-rays are in the general population of the Kabul area and Loghar region.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Clinical observations following asbestos exposure
…of mesothelioma in workers who did not handle asbestos directly and in household contacts. The author concluded that further investigation is needed to define the risk from long-term, low-level exposure in the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
New marker for mesothelioma: an immunoperoxidase study
…to most epithelial tumour tissues. It also stained reactive and malignant mesothelial cells in fluid smears. The authors noted that the antibody marks mesothelial cells in general, not only mesothelioma cells. They concluded it may help…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1950
Tubular crystals of chrysotile asbestos
…oxygen sheet. The authors concluded that both natural and synthetic chrysotile crystallize as hollow cylindrical tubes, and that there is a general structural analogy and a striking resemblance between the tubular crystals of endellite and chrysotile.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Occupational and "non-occupational" asbestosis in Finland
…peritoneal tumors were not more frequent in the calcification area than in other rural east Finland. The author said the hazard could be controlled, but that too little was known about danger to the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Environmental and occupational risk factors for lung cancer
…cancer deaths among women in two chrysotile mining areas. It said the contribution of low-dose environmental asbestos to lung cancer in the general population is not known. The author concluded that lung cancer is highly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1927
Histology of Pulmonary Asbestosis
…test. Zoologists judged them not animal, and the general opinion of botanical and chemical experts was that they were not plant forms. The author proposed that they were asbestos fibres slowly altered by chemical breakdown. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Occupational diseases in Poland--an overview of current trends
…was the leading cause, in about 50% of occupational lung cancer cases. Of an average 199 mesothelioma cases yearly in Poland's general population in 2006–2008, 11.6% were recognized as occupational. The authors concluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos-related lung cancer mortality in Piedmont, Italy
…The association held without Casale Monferrato or without Turin. The authors suggested that asbestos effects on lung cancer known from occupational studies are also observable in the general population. Smoking and individual case data were unavailable.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Smoking, coal, asbestos, and the lungs
…asbestos levels and smoking would cut lung cancer in workers, that cutting smoking would have more effect in asbestos-exposed workers than in the general population, and that banning tobacco advertising would be a sensible next…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Accuracy of CT Against Immunohistochemical Test Among the Mexican Population
…and 85.7 vs. 93.2 and 65.6%, respectively. CT is an easily accessible and useful tool that should be incorporated into the medical education of general physicians to improve MPM diagnosis of suspected cases.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Pleural disease manifests years after asbestos exposure
…and follow-up with the pulmonary team were scheduled to monitor the pleural disease. In a general discussion based on other published sources, the author stated that a comprehensive occupational and environmental history is essential when…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Case-control study on renal cell cancer and occupational exposure to trichloroethylene. Part I: Exposure assessment
…occupational physicians agreed with the authors' ratings for 23 of 32 job periods checked. The authors concluded their population could not be regarded as a typical general population. They called their distance corrections very crude estimates.