117 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 6
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Rheumatoid pneumoconiosis in association with asbestosis
…case report about one man. He was a 49-year-old electric arc-welder of 20 years, admitted to Maryland General Hospital with cough and mild shortness of breath on exertion. His chest X-ray showed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Awareness, knowledge and training gaps regarding asbestos among General Practitioners: a pilot study
General Practitioners (GPs) have good knowledge of health status and sociocultural backgrounds of their patients, thus could be decisive in early detection of cases of asbestos-related diseases (ARDs). In this cross-sectional pilot study, we…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos-related radiographic changes by ILO classification of 10 x 10 cm chest X-rays in a screening of the general population
The authors re-read a sample of 1388 small (10 × 10 cm) chest X-rays from an earlier screening of men aged 40 and over in Telemark county, Norway. Of these, 1036 came from an industrial town and 352 from a rural community. One experienced reader,…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Prevalence of pleural calcification in persons exposed to asbestos dust, and in the general population in the same district
…not minus only the 8. Each exposed group had more cases than expected from the general population (workers: 42 against an expected 2.75). The authors reported these differences as statistically significant at the 1% level…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Computer tomography in the evaluation of pulmonary asbestosis. Preliminary experiences with the EMI general purpose scanner
…from Harrow, England, described early experience using computer tomography (CT) with the EMI general purpose scanner in 13 patients exposed to asbestos for between one and 40 years. Each had 5 to 8 CT sections, which…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos fibre in the lung and mesothelioma. A re-examination of the Malmö material
An examination of general lung tissue with an electron microscope for asbestos fibres is reported. The 65 cases examined consisted of 33 cases of pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma and 32 control cases. Asbestos fibres were found…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Nature of exposure to chrysotile
Fibres in general, and chrysotile fibres in particular, have properties that set them apart from other airborne particles in terms of their aerodynamic behaviour and the nature of their interactions with cells and fluids in vivo…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
The pathology of parietal pleural plaques
This 1971 autopsy study came from a Glasgow general hospital serving a heavily industrialized area near the Clyde shipyards. The author examined the chest linings of 334 hospital necropsies for hyaline plaques on the parietal pleura…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Asbestos and asbestosis
This short 1970 paper was not a research study but a general overview. It was originally presented at a 1969 conference on asbestos exposure during brake and clutch maintenance, and the author was Group Medical Adviser…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos-related pleural thickening: effect of threshold criteria on interpretation
This study, from the radiology department of Massachusetts General Hospital, examined how the rule for what counts as pleural thickening on a chest X-ray changes survey results. Chest radiographs from 1,216 workers at six…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos lung burden and asbestosis after occupational and environmental exposure in an asbestos cement manufacturing area: a necropsy study
This necropsy (autopsy) study examined lung tissue from the consecutive autopsies done at the General Hospital of Casale Monferrato, Italy, home to a large asbestos cement factory, from July 1985 to July 1988. Of 55 autopsies…
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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 · 1958
Rheumatoid lung changes associated with asbestosis
…of rheumatoid lung disease. The patient was a 49-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis who had worked as a general labourer in an asbestos factory from January 1952 to January 1956. The article does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Electron microscope characteristics of inhaled chrysotile asbestos fibre
This study described how chrysotile asbestos looks under the electron microscope in human lung tissue. The author examined specimens from about 300 lungs: general population groups, people with pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma and their controls, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Interaction of asbestos, age, and cigarette smoking in producing radiographic evidence of diffuse pulmonary fibrosis
…populations with different levels of exposure to asbestos and with different cigarette smoking histories shows that smoking in the general population does not produce pulmonary fibrosis recognizable on chest radiography. In the general population of Michigan…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Value of the lateral view in diagnosing pleural plaques
…assess the value of the lateral view in the diagnosis of pleural plaques, 2018 chest roentgenograms from the general population were scrutinized for such plaques. The lateral and posterior-anterior (PA) views were read separately and…