6 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Measurement of asbestos fibre concentrations in fluid of repeated bro-choalveolar lavages of exposed workers
…Uncertainties related in general to lung residues and in particular to mineralogical analysis of BALF (mainly due to the high coefficient of variation (CV) at low fibre concentrations and the results of the statistical analysis on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Estimating the number of asbestos-related lung cancer deaths in Great Britain from 1980 to 2000
…to 2000 (excluding 1981) were calculated for occupational groups. Smoking indicators were developed from three General Household Surveys carried out during the 1980s and 1990s. Poisson regression models were used to estimate the number of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Lung fibre burden in lung cancer cases employed in the rock and slag wool industry
…dry lung. Asbestos fibres were found in 16 cases in minor amounts, described by the authors as similar to general-population levels. Lung fibre levels did not follow estimated exposure to MMVF or asbestos, and age…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Case-control study on renal cell cancer and occupational exposure to trichloroethylene. Part I: Exposure assessment
…occupational physicians agreed with the authors' ratings for 23 of 32 job periods checked. The authors concluded their population could not be regarded as a typical general population. They called their distance corrections very crude estimates.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
The quantitative risks of mesothelioma and lung cancer in relation to asbestos exposure: the Wittenoom data
…and mill. It covered 12 shifts and collected 38 static samples, and it was reported only in general terms in 1968. Others had derived median estimates of 50 fibres/ml for ever mill workers, 12 fibres…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
The combination of effects on lung cancer of cigarette smoking and exposure in quebec chrysotile miners and millers
…equivalent to exposure amounting to 700 million particles per cubic foot x years. The refutation of the multiplicative hypothesis in these data reinforces its inapplicability in general; but the additive hypothesis is not generally applicable either…