16 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Inequities in reporting asbestos-related lung cancer: influence of smoking stigma and physician's specialty, workload and role perception
…claims for asbestos-related cancers, focusing on smokers' stigma and physicians' speciality and role perception. Cross-sectional telephone study of 486 randomly-selected general practitioners (GPs) and pulmonologists in south-eastern France. Standardised questionnaires explored their…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Mortality and cancer morbidity in a cohort of Canadian petroleum workers
…1964 and 1994 and worked at least one year. Their records were linked to national death and cancer registry data and compared with the general Canadian population. The authors also estimated exposure to hydrocarbon solvents/fuels…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Updated mortality among diverse operating segments of a petroleum company
…in the earlier study. Analyses used standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare worker cause specific mortality with the Canadian general population. Duration of employment and latency analyses were performed for causes previously found to be increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Update of a prospective study of mortality and cancer incidence in the Australian petroleum industry
…to 31 December 1996, comparing their deaths and cancers with national rates. Men's overall death rate was below the general population's (SMR 0.68, 95% CI 0.63 to 0.73). Their overall cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Workplace exposures and oesophageal cancer
…between 1979 and 1985. It compared 99 men with oesophageal cancer (63 with squamous cell carcinoma) with 1,066 controls: 533 men from the general population and 533 men with other cancers. Chemists and industrial hygienists…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Asbestosis and lobar site of lung cancer
…68.8% among workers with asbestosis were in the lower lobes, compared with 28.6% in the city's general population. A later cohort of 4060 asbestos workers (1985–96) used the same upper-plus-lower…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Update of mortality and cancer incidence in the Australian petroleum industry cohort
…and drivers had more kidney cancer than expected (12 cases v 5.84 expected). Lung cancer incidence among men was lower than in the general population (SIR 0.69, 95% CI 0.57 to 0.83)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Update of the Texaco mortality study 1947-93: Part II
…colleagues in their update of the Texaco mortality study. The author argued that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer rates than the general population, so maintenance workers exposed to asbestos should be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Occupation and risk of stomach cancer in Poland
…between 1994 and 1996. Controls (n = 479) were randomly selected from the general population in Warsaw. Only a few occupations and industries were associated with significantly increased risks of stomach cancer. The most suggestive finding…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Occupational exposures and pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis
…statistical test showed significant variation between these studies. Twenty populations compared with general-population rates gave a statistically significant ratio of 1.2 (1.0 to 1.5), while four case-control populations gave 0.7…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Mortality and cancer incidence of Australian participants in the British nuclear tests in Australia
…were compared with rates in the general male Australian population. Dose reconstructions were carried out by a panel of health physicists. Mortality and cancer rates were compared with the general population and between groups of subjects…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Updated epidemiological study of workers at two California petroleum refineries, 1950-95
…cohort study of workers at two petroleum refineries in California was undertaken. Mortality analyses were based on standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) using the general population of California as a reference…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
A cohort study of mortality among Ontario pipe trades workers
…Canadian Mortality Registry at Statistics Canada. Standardised mortality ratios were computed using Ontario general population mortality rates as the reference. There were significant increases in lung cancer mortality rates (SMR 1.27; 95% CI 1.13…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Exposure to non-arsenic pesticides is associated with lymphoma among farmers in Spain
…with all other occupations. Farmers were analysed according to the type of farming job performed: crop farming, animal farming, and general farming. Occupational exposure was summarised into 15 main categories: organic dust, radiation, contact with animals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Mortality among shipyard Coast Guard workers: a retrospective cohort study
…In addition, 20 job groups were created on likely similar exposures. Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated based on the general population of the state and adjusted for age, calendar period, sex and race. The follow…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Mortality in a cohort of vermiculite miners exposed to fibrous amphibole in Libby, Montana
…a 14% increase in mortality for mine workers exposed occupationally to 100 f/ml.y or about 3.2% for a general population exposed for 50 years to an ambient concentration of 0.1 f/ml…