3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Environmental contaminants and low-level cancer risks: perceptions and scientific strategies
…concern, that data are limited and apply mostly to schools and office buildings, and that general public exposure to asbestos fibres in these buildings is apparently exceedingly low. The paper did not name a fiber type…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Pleural plaques and exposure to asbestos: a mathematical model
…latency of around 13 years, 'a' around 0.4, and a constant depending on exposure intensity. The author noted that the model's general applicability cannot be judged until it is tested on other data sets.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Retrospective assessment of asbestos exposure--I. Case-control analysis in a study of lung cancer: efficiency of job-specific questionnaires and job exposure matrices
…the assessment obtained by the application of two job exposure matrices (JEM) to the job history. The study includes 391 incident male cases and the same number of controls from the general population, matched by sex…