5 results for “General Electric”
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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 · 1984
Mortality among employees of an Ontario asbestos-cement factory
…cancers, and 17 deaths from mesothelioma; the factory control subjects had mortality rates similar to the general population. The cell-type distribution of the lung cancers was similar to that occurring in middle-aged smokers. Cumulative…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Mechanisms of macrophage accumulation in the lungs of asbestos-exposed subjects
…more local multiplication contribute. Comparisons among subgroups of workers found no statistically significant differences in these markers, but the authors noted too few had abnormal lung function for general conclusions comparing those with and without asbestosis.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Lung asbestos content in long-term residents of a chrysotile mining town
…North America. Data on the residents' lungs were compared with those obtained from 20 long-term (25 yr and greater) chrysotile industry workers from Thetford Mines and 20 members of the general population of Vancouver. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
A comparison of the ferruginous body and uncoated fiber content in the lungs of former asbestos workers
…2 million uncoated amphibole fibers per gram. Light microscopy examination of adjacent tissues confirmed mild fibrosis in both workers. Ferruginous bodies serve as a general marker for asbestos exposure. However, our data suggest that their absence…