5 results for “General Electric”
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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 · 1971
Electron diffraction patterns of U.I.C.C. asbestos samples
…electron diffraction patterns was studied using a double-tilt stage. Rotation did not have a nurked effect on the general pattern of weak and strong spectra. It has been shown that electron diffraction nlethod may ha…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Historical background to the asbestos problem
…with the Cape asbestos field, and Doll's 1955 finding that men employed 20 or more years at a large asbestos works had 10 times the general population's lung cancer risk. The authors concluded that…
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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 · 1976
The reliability of measures of amphibole fiber concentration in water
…However, the relative variability among laboratories was reasonably uniform. There was general agreement that water from some sites was consistently high in concentrations of amphibole fibers, while other sites were consistently low. We conclude that comparisons…