29 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Tissue burden of asbestos in nonoccupationally exposed individuals from east Texas
The potential for asbestos exposure among members of the general population is appreciable, considering its widespread use in many products. This study examined tissue burden of asbestos in such a population. A group of 33 individuals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos in strange places: two case reports of mesothelioma among merchant seamen
The authors described two cases of malignant pleural mesothelioma in Greek merchant seamen. Both came from a mesothelioma registry in Greece and were seen at Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens. The first was a 71-year-old…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…are at increased risk of lung cancer. The author noted that refinery and petrochemical workers overall have lower lung cancer rates than the general population, with one review reporting lung cancer mortality at 77% of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Mortality of a cohort of men in a silicosis register: further evidence of an association with lung cancer
…on a Hong Kong silicosis compensation register from July 1980 through 1986, comparing deaths with those expected in Hong Kong's general male population. They had excluded 68 workers thought to have had past or concomitant…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Comparison of U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards and German Berufsgenossenschaften Guidelines for Preventive Occupational Health Examinations
…compared the medical examination requirements in U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) general industry standards with those in the German Berufsgenossenschaften guidelines for preventive occupational health examinations. They used a previously published method that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Re: Mesothelioma in railroad machinists
…800,000 tremolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The general-population 95th percentile for amosite plus crocidolite was 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The authors stated that the amosite plus crocidolite values…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
A study of lung cancer mortality in asbestos workers: Doll, 1955
…mice by asbestos, were circulated in confidence to its scientists, but being unpublished were unknown to the general scientific community. There were also cancer mortality data recorded for populations of exposed asbestos workers, but these were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Assessing quality of life when planning and evaluating worker notification programs: two case examples
…action. Signs of minimizing the risk were reported by 34.7% of nonattenders and 15.8% of attenders. The second case was a questionnaire about workplace carcinogens in general, returned by 369 paper industry workers. Over…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…ratios (SMRs, which compare observed deaths with those expected in the general population) were below 100. The author noted that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer risk than the general population, so…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Radiographic asbestosis is not a prerequisite for asbestos-associated lung cancer in Ontario asbestos-cement workers
…hired before 1960 who had at least one chest X-ray available. Deaths were tracked to the end of 1985 and compared with the general population of Ontario. A single certified reader classified the X-rays…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Mortality from a Chinese asbestos plant: overall cancer mortality
…chrysotile. The plant made brake shoes, textiles and rope. Deaths were compared with Qingdao's general population. The text reports 22 cancers causing 21 deaths, though the table lists 22 cancer deaths against 11.17 expected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mesothelioma in the London area
…to see whether the link with asbestos held in an urban setting. The team used hospital ward notes, the patients' general practitioners, and home interviews with surviving relatives, mostly carried out by social worker Hilda Thompson…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos-related lung cancer mortality in Piedmont, Italy
…The association held without Casale Monferrato or without Turin. The authors suggested that asbestos effects on lung cancer known from occupational studies are also observable in the general population. Smoking and individual case data were unavailable.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Pleural malignant mesothelioma in Tuscany, Italy (1970-1988): I. Anatomo-pathologic aspects
Our investigation did not confirm the general experience that significant numbers of cases initially considered malignant mesothelioma or metastatic carcinoma are actually found to be metastatic carcinoma or malignant mesothelioma, respectively, upon deeper investigation using ancillary…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Use of death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: variations in discordance of different asbestos-associated diseases on best evidence ascertainment
There is extensive information on discordance in general between accuracy of medical diagnoses on death certificate categorization of cause of death and available clinical and histopathological data. This is as true for occupational disease as for…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Asbestos exposure and ovarian fiber burden
Epidemiologic studies suggest increased risk of epithelial ovarian cancer in female asbestos workers and increased risk of malignancy in general in household contacts of asbestos workers. Ovaries were studied from 13 women with household contact with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung cancer risk and welding: results from a case-control study in Germany
…In contrast, a history of welding in general for at least a half-year is 28% among cases and 23% among controls, yielding an OR of 1.25 (95% CL: 0.94-1.65) after adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Cancer risks among iron and steel workers in Anshan, China, Part I: Proportional mortality ratio analysis
…to provide clues to occupational risk factors. Accidents and cancer accounted for a higher proportion of deaths among the iron-steel workers than among the general male population (SPMR = 1.21; 95% CI = 1…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Parenchymal and pleural fibrosis in construction workers
…male population from another investigation indicates that the frequency of lung fibrosis (ILO greater than or equal to 1/1) is at least two times higher among the examined construction workers than among the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Smoking intervention in subjects at risk of asbestos-related lung cancer
…and for a shorter period, than had the continuing smokers. Counseling by a general physician increased successful quitting threefold, compared to counseling by a physician in a specialized institution. These results suggest a potential for smoking…