449 results for “General Electric”, page 9 of 23
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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 · 1990
Asbestos-related benign disease and cancer: symptoms and treatment
…general, many years elapse from first exposure to the appearance of symptoms. Almost all these diseases are the result of dusty working conditions more than 20 years ago. In spite of the fact that the general…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Relationships between ferruginous bodies and uncoated asbestos fibers in lung tissue
…Americans to amosite. The levels of ferruginous bodies in both groups suggest exposures above those expected in the general population. Uncoated chrysotile levels were below the ranges reported previously for some general populations. The data suggest…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
French ministries in argument over release of asbestos report
…publish the final report as a book, as originally agreed. Several independent sources alleged that the office of INSERM's director general blocked publication while awaiting authorization from the science ministry. The science minister, Claude Allègre…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Sudden death of an elderly man with multiple malignant neoplasms
…section reported asbestos body counts in the lung bases higher than background. The discussion instead stated that levels were within background for the general population, but that the left lower lobe had a significantly higher count…
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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 · 1998
Globally asbestos-free automobiles
…products and engine gaskets. According to the author, General Motors used asbestos gaskets in new engines in Brazil, although it had used safer substitutes in vehicles sold in North America since around 1993. A Brazilian government…
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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 · 1994
Immunohistochemical reactivity in mesothelioma and adenocarcinoma: a stepwise logistic regression analysis
…tissue from 103 malignant mesotheliomas from two Swedish hospitals, Malmo General and Huddinge University, and from 43 adenocarcinoma metastases of the pleura from Malmo General Hospital autopsy files. A monoclonal anti-CEA antibody stained 70% of…
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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 · 1997
French agency agrees to publication of asbestos report
…Marimbert, head of the ministry's department of labour relations, to INSERM's director general stated that INSERM representatives had decided not to publish the final report at INSERM Editions, and it demanded a reversal. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Malignant mesothelioma after environmental exposure to blue asbestos
…or as employees of CSR or ABA, the cohort was 4890 (2187 men, 2703 women). Residents were exposed through general contamination from milling, mill tailings used on roads, yards and playgrounds, and household contact with workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Causes of death in a cohort of 260 plutonium workers
…in the admittedly biased self-selected cohort of the first 260 deceased participants in the USTUR revealed, in general, no apparently elevated causes of death except for six cases of mesothelioma and six cases of astrocytoma…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Efflux of reduced glutathione after exposure of human lung epithelial cells to crocidolite asbestos
…hour in that medium, so the authors suggested it was released from the cells continuously. They found no sign of general membrane damage. Activity of the enzyme gamma glutamylcysteine synthetase fell by 47%, while four other…
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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 · 1998
Nonoccupational exposure to chrysotile asbestos and the risk of lung cancer
…and crocidolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The laboratory's maximal general-population background for amosite plus crocidolite is 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The second and third had asbestosis at autopsy…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Proxy respondents and the validity of occupational and other exposure data. The Selected Cancers Cooperative Study Group
…as correct. Proxy interviews were completed for 270 of the 310 men who died. Proxies reported general smoking history well: for ever having been a regular smoker, sensitivity and specificity were both 95 percent. Reporting of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Diagnosis and prognostic factors in malignant pleural mesothelioma: a retrospective analysis of sixty-five patients
…years. In the main statistical model, only early (stage I) disease and good performance status (a WHO measure of general functioning) were significantly linked to longer survival. Asbestos exposure was not a significant predictor of survival…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Asbestos exposure and asbestosis
…asbestos particles building up in the lung, as clear. But the author objected to the article using the general term 'asbestos exposure' for non-cancerous pleural disease, since that disease, asbestosis and the cancers linked to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
The priority for recognizing asbestos as a multicentre carcinogen, and problems in categorizing asbestos tumours
…cited an earlier register study of 246 malignant mesothelioma cases in which three had additional primary cancers. That was not significantly different from the 1.2% rate in a separate review of 3,771 general autopsies.