14 results for “General Electric”
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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 · 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 · 1965
Asbestos related disease
…spent 10 years in shipyards ripping out old insulation died of a primary mesothelioma of the right pleura. Of 23 Massachusetts General Hospital mesothelioma cases from the past 15 years, 11 had reasonably complete work histories…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Histological characteristics of mesothelioma associated with asbestos
…10 of them found among 307 consecutive deaths. Seven came from 26 consecutive asbestosis cases among 2500 autopsies at Middlesex General and Barnert Memorial Hospitals. Twelve came from 45 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology cases checked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Asbestos and health in 1969
…found the contention that crocidolite itself causes mesothelioma difficult to accept. The author also argued that ferruginous bodies in the general public had not been proved to be asbestos, and named talc as another fiber source…
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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 · 1968
Asbestos bodies
…incidental asbestos inhalation was virtually certain. The author concluded that many bodies were probably true asbestos bodies and that occupational exposure was probably a more important source than general environmental contamination. The author called the occupational…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1967
Asbestos-dust exposures at various levels and mortality
…white males of all ages in 1950 to 1962. The authors concluded that asbestos dust at general-population levels probably is of little importance in causing disease. Follow-up lasted at most 16 and a half…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Prevalence of "asbestos" bodies in human lungs at necropsy
…same number of "asbestos" bodies. None of the subjects had manifested pulmonary asbestosis during life. Their occupational and environmental histories were quite varied; in general, they did not point to a history of exposure to asbestos.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Validation of death certificates in asbestos workers
…Validation of death certificates in asbestos workers. The Registrar General has supplied the certified cause of death of 436 past workers in an asbestos factory. An attempt was made to follow up the 301 (69%) deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Pulmonary function in asbestosis: serial tests in a long-term prospective study
…of the 13 patients. There was also a fall in maximum breathing capacity, but in general they remained relatively well preserved. Air velocity indices showed an upward trend in more than half, and in only one…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The occurrence of pleural calcification among asbestos insulation workers
…the pleura was found to be immune. The diagnostic importance of such unilateral calcification is stressed since even unilateral calcification is uncommon in the general population and when it occurs, a traumatic or infectious history can…