14 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Occupational and work-related respiratory disease attributed to cleaning products
This study analysed work-related respiratory disease reported to the UK THOR surveillance network by chest physicians (1989–2017), occupational physicians (1999–2017) and general practitioners (2006–2017). It concerns cleaning products; asbestos cases were excluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Peritoneal mesothelioma and asbestos exposure: a population-based case-control study in Lombardy, Italy
…to its rarity, PeM has rarely been investigated in community-based studies. We examined the association between asbestos exposure and PeM risk in a general population in Lombardy, Italy. From the regional mesothelioma registry, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Setting new standards for epidemiological research on mesothelioma
…control study. Controls were resected lung cancer cases, who represent less advanced disease and would be expected to have higher fibre burdens than the general population. Sample retrieval among controls was 262/420 (62.4%). They…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Author reply: 'Response to: Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features' by Araki et al
…earlier study found pleural abnormalities in 1.5% of the cohort, which they suggested could be an index of asbestos exposure in the general population. They wrote that every case was confirmed by at least two…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Comparison of exposure assessment methods for occupational carcinogens in a multi-centre lung cancer case-control study
…re-applied to all study subjects. Third, an independent general population JEM (GPJEM) was created by occupational exposure experts not involved in the original study, and applied to study subjects. Results from these methods were compared…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features
The prevalence of pleural abnormalities in the general population is an epidemiologically important index of asbestos exposure, which has not been investigated since a radiography-based study in 1980. We examined 2633 chest CT scans (mean…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and occupational and non-occupational asbestos exposure: a case-control study with quantitative risk assessment
…Monferrato (north west Italy) is an area with an exceptionally high incidence of mesothelioma caused by asbestos contamination at work and in the general environment from the asbestos-cement Eternit plant that was operational until 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Digestive cancers and occupational asbestos exposure: incidence study in a cohort of asbestos plant workers
…occupationally exposed to asbestos. The incidence of digestive cancers was calculated from 1 January 1978 to 31 December 2009 and compared with levels among the local general population using Standardised Incidence Ratios (SIRs). Asbestos exposure was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer risks in relation to occupational history and asbestos lung burden
We have conducted a population-based study of pleural mesothelioma patients with occupational histories and measured asbestos lung burdens in occupationally exposed workers and in the general population. The relationship between lung burden and risk, particularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
A comparison of exposure assessment approaches: lung cancer and occupational asbestos exposure in a population-based case-control study
…assessment of occupational exposure to asbestos was compared using self-reports and a general population job-exposure matrix (DOM-JEM). Cases and frequency matched controls provided life-time job histories and self-reported exposures to potential…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Trends in mortality from occupational hazards among men in England and Wales during 1979-2010
…and declining mortality from some diseases across the whole population. Notable exceptions to the general improvement were diseases caused by asbestos, especially in some construction trades and sinonasal cancer in woodworkers. The highest priority for future…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Lung cancer incidence in Canadian petroleum workers
…cancer incidence, although exposures to the single agents studied did not emerge as strong predictors of lung cancer incidence. Maintenance work may be a surrogate for general exposures to several agents (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, metals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Cardiovascular disease mortality among British asbestos workers (1971-2005)
…exposure was also statistically significant in this model. Cerebrovascular and IHD mortality was significantly higher among these asbestos workers than in the general population and within the cohort mortality was associated with indicators of asbestos exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Extended follow-up of lung cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease mortality among California diatomaceous earth workers
…significant. Associations were attenuated when adjusted for smoking and asbestos exposure. Mortality from NMRD was significantly increased over the entire follow-up compared to the general population (SMR=1.37, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.60)…