2 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Environmental epidemiology. 3. Community effects of nonoccupational environmental asbestos exposure
…raised several open questions: unrecognized occupational exposure, whether the bodies were truly asbestos, whether general air pollution causes disease, and how to allow for smoking and long latency. They concluded that well-defined cohort studies with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1967
Asbestosis and neoplasia
…consecutive deaths among insulation workers (1943-1966), 17 (about 5%) were due to mesothelioma, against about 1 in 10,000 deaths in the general population. In Dresden, lung cancer deaths rose as deaths from severe asbestosis…