9 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Pleural plaques in the general population
…pleural plaques to measure the impact of asbestos on the general population of Uppsala county, Sweden, which had a population of 250,782 in 1985. A general health survey invited all inhabitants aged 15 and over…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
A comparison of asbestos burden in lung parenchyma, lymph nodes, and plaques
…plaques and pleura are not useful for mineral analysis, and they designed the study to test it. Tissue was collected at autopsy at the General Hospital of Monfalcone, Italy, from eight former shipyard workers (seven men…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Absence of evidence for a significant background incidence of diffuse malignant mesothelioma apart from asbestos exposure
…1940s. One must conclude that the background level of diffuse malignant mesothelioma in Europe and in the United States prior to 1930 was extremely low. No case was detected at the Massachusetts General Hospital until 1946.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
The long-lasting legacy of industrial carcinogens: the lesson of asbestos. Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Lecture, 1995
…Lecture, given in 1995. Much of it is the author's general discussion of cancer and industrial carcinogens. Its main original content was a series of Italian mesothelioma cases collected by the European Ramazzini Foundation. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Limitations in drawing etiologic inferences based on measurement of asbestos fibers from lung tissue
…exposure and disease cause from lung fiber and asbestos body counts. The author argued that autopsy subjects do not represent general-population deaths and that counts vary several-fold within one lung. Laboratory methods also differ…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos exposure and fire fighting
…that fire fighters are at risk of asbestos-induced pleural and pulmonary fibrosis independent of other exposure. They noted that 9% pleural thickening exceeded the roughly 2% reported in general population studies. They recommended reducing exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos fibers are mutagenic after all: new signs of orthodoxy for a paradoxical group of carcinogens
…held that they lacked clear genotoxic potential. He summarized earlier work. There was general agreement that asbestos fibers induced aneuploidy and chromosome breaks. Results on sister chromatid exchanges disagreed. Mammalian cell specific-locus assays had reported…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Radiological abnormalities and asbestos exposure among custodians of the New York City Board of Education
…New York City Board of Education underwent examination from 1985 through 1987 for asbestos-related disease and other general medical conditions by the clinical staff of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine of the Mount…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mineral fiber content of lung tissue in patients with environmental exposures: household contacts vs. building occupants
…occupationally exposed individuals. In contrast, our studies of four occupants of buildings with asbestos-containing materials indicate that these individuals often have pulmonary asbestos burdens indistinguishable from the general nonoccupationally exposed population. However, one such building…