3 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 · 1980
Asbestos bodies
…protein coat. They cited their own separate analysis, which examined the cores of over 600 bodies from more than 80 patients in the general population and found that the cores were asbestos. In that analysis, 98…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos and other ferruginous bodies: their formation and clinical significance
…with asbestos. At the highest levels of exposure, numbers of asbestos bodies correlate in a general way with the presence of asbestosis, although no precise value has been determined above which asbestosis is always found. In…