4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Relation of occupational exposure to respiratory symptoms and asthma in a general population sample: self-reported versus interview-based exposure data
…was taken into account. The corresponding numbers for exposure to quartz were halved and lost their statistical significance when the misclassification was allowed for. In this general population sample, the self-reported occupational, airborne exposure data…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Occupational lung cancer risk for men in Germany: results from a pooled case-control study
This study pooled two German case-control studies (1988 to 1996): 3,498 men with lung cancer and 3,541 men from the general population. Lifelong job and smoking histories were collected; experts rated workplace exposures…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Occupational exposure and laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer risk in central and eastern Europe
…For laryngeal cancer, the odds ratio for ever exposure to asbestos in general was 0.86 (95% CI 0.51 to 1.45), and for chrysotile asbestos it was 0.78 (0.44 to 1.40…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Case-control study on lung cancer and residential radon in western Germany
…7 (95 percent CI 1.4 to 2.0). Adjusting for it did not change the radon results. The authors concluded that their results suggest residential radon contributes to lung cancer risk in the general population.