74 results for “General Electric”, page 2 of 4
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
A case-control study of the relationship between the risk of colon cancer in men and exposures to occupational agents
…who were diagnosed with colon cancer between 1979 and 1985. They compared them with 2047 control men: 1514 with other cancers and 533 from the general population. Chemists and industrial hygienists turned each man's job…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Re: Mesothelioma in railroad machinists
…800,000 tremolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The general-population 95th percentile for amosite plus crocidolite was 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The authors stated that the amosite plus crocidolite values…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos-related diseases in the Federal Republic of Germany
…and 85 (78 men, seven women) had died. Compared with the age- and sex-specific pattern of deaths in the general population, the share of deaths from lung cancer (17 cases, standardized proportional mortality ratio 3…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
RE: Mesothelioma and lung tumors attributable to asbestos among petroleum workers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2000. 37:275-282
…rate ratios: excluding "contract workers", the practice of "tolling", and using general-population rather than unexposed company workers as controls for standardized mortality ratios. They noted a 1960 report, co-authored by Texaco's medical director…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
A study of lung cancer mortality in asbestos workers: Doll, 1955
…mice by asbestos, were circulated in confidence to its scientists, but being unpublished were unknown to the general scientific community. There were also cancer mortality data recorded for populations of exposed asbestos workers, but these were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Assessing quality of life when planning and evaluating worker notification programs: two case examples
…action. Signs of minimizing the risk were reported by 34.7% of nonattenders and 15.8% of attenders. The second case was a questionnaire about workplace carcinogens in general, returned by 369 paper industry workers. Over…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…ratios (SMRs, which compare observed deaths with those expected in the general population) were below 100. The author noted that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer risk than the general population, so…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Radiographic asbestosis is not a prerequisite for asbestos-associated lung cancer in Ontario asbestos-cement workers
…hired before 1960 who had at least one chest X-ray available. Deaths were tracked to the end of 1985 and compared with the general population of Ontario. A single certified reader classified the X-rays…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Malignant mesothelioma caused by childhood exposure to long-fiber low aspect ratio tremolite
…his later work. The authors dissolved lung tissue and examined the recovered fibers by electron microscope. His chrysotile level was within the general population's range. His tremolite and actinolite level was slightly elevated, but far…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Mortality from a Chinese asbestos plant: overall cancer mortality
…chrysotile. The plant made brake shoes, textiles and rope. Deaths were compared with Qingdao's general population. The text reports 22 cancers causing 21 deaths, though the table lists 22 cancer deaths against 11.17 expected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Malignant mesothelioma from neighborhood exposure to anthophyllite asbestos
…leu M1 antigen. Anthophyllite fibers were > 5 microm in length in lung tissue compared to 3 microm from a general population study. Anthophyllite asbestos has been associated with neighborhood environmental exposure and pleural plaques; we…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Mortality among employees of an Ontario factory manufacturing insulation materials from amosite asbestos
…from chest X-ray surveillance records. The list was matched to national death records, and deaths were compared with Ontario's general male population. Among workers classed as asbestos-exposed, 12 died 10 or more years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Tremolite/chrysotile ratios
…on lung fibers in processed-chrysotile workers, chrysotile miners, and the general population. That paper had reported a tremolite-to-chrysotile ratio of 9.7 for processed-ore workers. The letter writers said the paper's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Estimating exposures in the asphalt industry for an international epidemiological cohort study of cancer risk
…companies enrolled in the cohort, plus the Swedish asphalt paving industry in general. Most companies were engaged in road paving and asphalt mixing, but some also participated in general construction and roofing. Coal tar use was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mesothelioma in the London area
…to see whether the link with asbestos held in an urban setting. The team used hospital ward notes, the patients' general practitioners, and home interviews with surviving relatives, mostly carried out by social worker Hilda Thompson…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
RE: Asbestos in brakes: exposure and risk of disease
…cannot be defended. The letter discloses that the author has served as an expert witness in friction brake litigation, with the author's employer receiving funding for this work from Ford, General Motors and Daimler Chrysler.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Re: Evaluation of the size and type of free particulates collected from unused asbestos-containing brake components as related to potential for respirability
…raise concerns about historical exposures of automotive mechanics. The authors disclosed that their research was primarily funded by Ford, DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, and that some of them had been expert witnesses in brake-repair litigation.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos-related lung cancer mortality in Piedmont, Italy
…The association held without Casale Monferrato or without Turin. The authors suggested that asbestos effects on lung cancer known from occupational studies are also observable in the general population. Smoking and individual case data were unavailable.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Smoking prevalence of asbestos workers: a comment
…letter also cited other reports of 49.9% and 41.9% current smokers among construction workers, and 27.7% in the general population. The authors suggested that the older group's lower rate reflected a survivor…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Factors associated with cancer distress in the Asbestos Post-Exposure Survey (APEXS)
…asbestos will develop a disease was also associated with distress. The authors concluded that exposed subjects showed more distress than earlier studies had described. They noted their volunteer comparison group may not represent the general population.