5 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…a letter to The Lancet, not a research study, written by a health and safety co-ordinator at the UK Transport and General Workers Union. It responded to a May 9, 1998 commentary by Mark Cullen…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Malignant pleural mesothelioma associated with exposure to tremolite
…microscopy showed that rock and whitewash samples consisted primarily of asbestiform tremolite. Air sampling in two villages found no tremolite fibres in the general atmosphere. High concentrations were found in road dust clouds from a car…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Malignant mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos in dental practice
…found 0.7 x 10^6 crocidolite fibres per gram of dry lung. The authors described this as lower than expected with longstanding occupational exposure but higher than in the general population. No chrysotile fibres were found…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…current or ex-smokers, against less than 0.5% of women. Compared with the general population, lung cancer mortality was estimated at about 17-fold in men and four-fold in women. People tended to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mesothelioma and non-occupational environmental exposure to asbestos
…the plant. The numbers were small, but rates appeared to fall with distance from Casale Monferrato. They discussed possible biases and concluded that a cancer risk from asbestos may arise in the general, non-occupational environment.