8 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Incidence of cancer and mortality among workers exposed to mercury vapour in the Norwegian chloralkali industry
…the mortality were followed up from 1953 to 1989 and 1953 to 1988 respectively. The general Norwegian male population served as a reference population. There was a lung cancer excess of borderline significance (standardised incidence ratio…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos: a chronology of its origins and health effects
…by Leeds doctors. They reported that Dr Ian M D Grieve, a Leeds general practitioner in the 1920s, saw patients from a local factory that made insulation mattresses for steam engines from blue asbestos, which had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos: a chronology of its origins and health effects
…described, Doll's 1955 study of 113 men who had worked at least 20 years where they were exposed to asbestos dust found an average lung cancer risk 10 times that of the general population. Wagner…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Analysis of lung asbestos content
…In the author's laboratory the upper 95th percentile for the Vancouver general population was around 1 000 000 fibres each of chrysotile and tremolite and 10 000 fibres of amosite plus crocidolite per g of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers 1955
…was a specific industrial hazard of certain asbestos workers and that the average risk among men employed for 20 or more years has been of the order of 10 times that experienced by the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Mortality among United Kingdom servicemen who served abroad in the 1950s and 1960s
The Registrar General's decennial supplements on occupational mortality provide only limited information on mortality in the armed forces in the United Kingdom. Mortality has therefore been studied among a group of 30,619 United Kingdom…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is a lethal disease. It is rare in the general population; however, workers exposed to asbestos suffer significant burdens of the neoplasm. The survival time of 457 consecutive fatal cases of pleural and peritoneal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Cancer mortality and exposure to crocidolite
…a further 800 f/ml shorter than 5 µm. Samples from the general area outside the plant showed up to 2 f/ml longer than 5 µm. Rogers noted that de Klerk et al had applied…