14 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Fiber size and number in workers exposed to processed chrysotile asbestos, chrysotile miners, and the general population
…chrysotile ore, 20 long-term chrysotile miners, and 20 members of the general population (controls). Significantly greater amounts of both chrysotile and tremolite were found in processed-ore workers and miners than in controls. On average…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma in an urban hospital: clinical spectrum and trend in incidence over time
This retrospective review covered coded mesothelioma patients at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1973 through 1986. Of 75 cases, 64 were diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma; four peritoneal and seven benign fibrous cases were not analyzed. Of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Dust levels in an asbestos-cement factory: problem solving
…Isasbest Ltd., an asbestos-cement pipe and sheet factory in Nahariya, Israel, written by the company's general manager. The plant employed approximately 340 workers, and its products averaged 90% cement and 10% asbestos. The article…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos-related diseases in the Federal Republic of Germany
…and 85 (78 men, seven women) had died. Compared with the age- and sex-specific pattern of deaths in the general population, the share of deaths from lung cancer (17 cases, standardized proportional mortality ratio 3…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Malignant mesothelioma caused by childhood exposure to long-fiber low aspect ratio tremolite
…his later work. The authors dissolved lung tissue and examined the recovered fibers by electron microscope. His chrysotile level was within the general population's range. His tremolite and actinolite level was slightly elevated, but far…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Mortality among employees of an Ontario factory manufacturing insulation materials from amosite asbestos
…from chest X-ray surveillance records. The list was matched to national death records, and deaths were compared with Ontario's general male population. Among workers classed as asbestos-exposed, 12 died 10 or more years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Tremolite/chrysotile ratios
…on lung fibers in processed-chrysotile workers, chrysotile miners, and the general population. That paper had reported a tremolite-to-chrysotile ratio of 9.7 for processed-ore workers. The letter writers said the paper's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Decreased lung function in long-term asbestos cement workers: a cross-sectional study
…The primary type of asbestos used was chrysotile and the general dust level in the two decades 1950-1970 seems to have been around 10 mg/m3 while the asbestos fiber concentration averaged 2 fibers/ml…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
The in vitro cytotoxicity of asbestos fibers: I. P388D1 cells
…lactate dehydrogenase, and glucosaminidase levels were determined. In general, there was a close association between the reduction in cellular viability and the loss of intracellular enzymes induced by each dust, the chrysotile asbestos samples proving more…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Proportionate mortality among US shoeworkers, 1966-1977
…None of the shoeworker deaths were attributed to nasal cancer, whereas 2.2 were expected on the basis of general population data. Mortality from leukemia and cancer of the urinary bladder was not unusual in either…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Cause-specific mortality among male chemical workers
…the cohort members, and death certificates were obtained for 97.1% of the 7,751 decedents. Comparisons of observed mortality with expected levels based on any of three general population groups (US, Michigan, or seven local…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Relationship of mortality, occupation, and pulmonary diffusing capacity to pleural thickening in the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
…pleural thickening, taking smoking into account. These results suggest that individuals in the general population who have occupational pleural thickening are at risk for some of the health consequences of asbestos work, including lung cancer, even…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Malignant mesothelioma in non-asbestos textile workers in Florence
…sex, and year of hospital admission, with residence weighted for the general population of the Province. Both cases and referents (or their next of kin) completed an occupational questionnaire detailing possible occupational exposures. Out of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Mortality experience of amosite asbestos factory workers: dose-response relationships 5 to 40 years after onset of short-term work exposure
…job that the worker had in the factory. Whichever measure of dosage is used, it was found that, in general, the lower the dose, the longer it took for adverse mortality to become evident and, also…