1,676 results for “General Electric”, page 40 of 84
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Overview of occupational cancer in painters in Korea
…however, the elevated cancer risks reported in existing literature are not doubled in either lung or bladder cancer in commercial painters relative to the risks of these cancers in the general population. Based on our review…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
The Association Between the FTO rs9939609 Variant and Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Risk: A Case-Control Study
…had been exposed to asbestos, recruited between April 2014 and February 2016. They compared them with 149 controls from the general population, recruited from Cairo suburbs with known heavy asbestos exposure. Asbestos levels were not measured…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Commentary: Asbestos exposure and mesothelioma risk
…used the statistical relationship between the average lung burden of asbestos particles and mesothelioma death rates in the general population to predict rates in younger people who began work after asbestos was no longer in use…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Germline mutations in DNA repair genes predispose asbestos-exposed patients to malignant pleural mesothelioma
…lifetime asbestos exposure had been estimated from interviews about exposure at work, at home and in the general environment. The authors sequenced 94 cancer-related genes from blood samples and compared the results with 96 Italian…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Yellow Nail Syndrome with Bilateral Pleural Plaques and Diffuse Pleural Thickening: A Mimic of Asbestos Related Disease
…death was yellow nail syndrome complicated by lobar pneumonia and diffuse pleural fibrosis, listed as the immediate cause. He had smoked heavily and worked as a general manager, policeman, clothing design director and dark room technician…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Biological mechanisms of non-linear dose-response for respirable mineral fibers
…shape the relationship between exposure and disease risk. The paper described five general mechanisms that could create exposure thresholds and listed six positive feedback loops involving reactive oxygen species and the inflammasome. The author proposed that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Single-institution experience of intensity-modulated radiotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma at University of Catania
…Seven patients completed radiotherapy. One stopped early when their general condition worsened and died two months later from local spread of the disease. At a median follow-up of 16 months (range 6 to 23 months…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Environmental risk factors for liver cancer and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
…not name fiber types. In a French cohort of 2024 asbestos-exposed workers, male workers had more liver cancer than the general population in Calvados (SIR 1.85, 95% CI 1.09–2.92); among females…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
The association among ferruginous body, uncoated fibers, asbestos and non-asbestos fibers in lung tissue in terms of length
…an important index of asbestos exposure, uncoated fibers observed with phase-contrast microscope might be another index especially in such cases with relatively low exposure due to their history of living in a general environment. However…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Mortality in a cohort of asbestos-exposed workers undergoing health surveillance
…to asbestos, enrolled in a PHSP in FVG between the early 1990s and 2008, with that of the general population of FVG and Italy. Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR), with 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI), for all…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
How to Judge Safety Crime: Lessons From the Eternit Asbestos Maxi-Trials
…illness was caused by it. The author also cited epidemiological evidence that male Casale Monferrato workers were 545 times more likely to die of asbestosis than the general male population of Piedmont. The author concluded that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Asbestos disease expert wins right to obtain information held on him by lobbyist
…of chrysotile (white) asbestos and asbestos cement products. Bridle complained to the General Medical Council that Rudd had falsified the health risks of chrysotile in expert reports. The report stated that the GMC dismissed the complaint…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Clustering of malignant pleural mesothelioma in asbestos factories: a subgroup analysis in a 29-year follow-up study to identify high-risk industries in Taiwan
…of malignant pleural mesothelioma (17 men, 1 woman) in eight factories. Each factory's rate was compared with Taiwan's general-population pleural cancer rate, used as a proxy, of 1.04 per million person-years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
USTUR Special Session Roundtable-US Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR): A Five-decade Follow-up of Plutonium and Uranium Workers
…No counts or mesothelioma type were given. Another participant recalled that Los Alamos analyzed about 150 former workers and over 1,100 general population samples. That participant recalled no difference in deposition between people living near…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Gender differences in pleural mesothelioma occurrence in Lombardy and Piedmont, Italy
…exposure in men translated into a 7 to 10 year advancement in mesothelioma occurrence. They noted that exposure information was not available for the general population, so rates by actual asbestos exposure could not be calculated.
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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 · 2016
Kinesin family members KIF11 and KIF23 as potential therapeutic targets in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…measurements are reported in this article. Gene-activity testing showed both genes highly active in most of 13 tumor samples from Toronto General Hospital and in four mesothelioma cell lines, but low in a normal mesothelial…
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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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Thesis · 2014
Labour Welfare Measures in Asbestos Mines: a case study (2014)
…50 workers, it compares conditions with the Mines Act, 1952. It reports that a 1988 Director General of Mines Safety inspection found asbestos dust above the permissible limit, and describes asbestosis. Captioned mine photographs are appended.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Comprehensive immunohistochemical study of mesothelin (MSLN) using different monoclonal antibodies 5B2 and MN-1 in 1562 tumors with evaluation of its prognostic value in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…ratio 0.36, 95% CI 0.21 to 0.64). The authors lacked information on disease stage and patients' general condition, so they could not say whether this pattern predicts survival on its own. None of…