74 results for “General Electric”, page 4 of 4
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
An updated mortality study of workers at a petroleum refinery in Beaumont, Texas
…analyses based on standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) showed overall mortality was significantly lower than expected compared with the U.S. general population (SMR = 82, 95% CI = 79-86)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Relationship of mortality, occupation, and pulmonary diffusing capacity to pleural thickening in the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
…pleural thickening, taking smoking into account. These results suggest that individuals in the general population who have occupational pleural thickening are at risk for some of the health consequences of asbestos work, including lung cancer, even…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Malignant mesothelioma in non-asbestos textile workers in Florence
…sex, and year of hospital admission, with residence weighted for the general population of the Province. Both cases and referents (or their next of kin) completed an occupational questionnaire detailing possible occupational exposures. Out of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Mesothelioma and lung tumors attributable to asbestos among petroleum workers
…many studies clearly show a definitely increased risk of mesothelioma, but no proven excess of lung cancer after comparison to the general population. Through the presentation of new data and the re-appraisal of two recent…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Cape Asbestos, Barking, health and environment: 1928-1946
…Barking, and that its exhaust ventilation was quite up to the general standard and constantly being improved. Reports on the factory environment and information on the health of Cape's workforce that are available for the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
The doctors and the dockers
…The Registrar General's occupational mortality report for 1951, noted excess tumors of the lung and stomach for dockers. Elevated Standardized Mortality Ratios for lung cancer had consistently been calculated by the Registrar General for the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Mortality experience of amosite asbestos factory workers: dose-response relationships 5 to 40 years after onset of short-term work exposure
…job that the worker had in the factory. Whichever measure of dosage is used, it was found that, in general, the lower the dose, the longer it took for adverse mortality to become evident and, also…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos screening and education programs for building and construction trades unions
…and retirees from 89 local unions affiliated with the Elevator Constructors or the Laborers were screened in 59 regional programs. A general description and historical perspective are offered concerning program implementation, integration into existing union infrastructures…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Work-related mesothelioma in Québec, 1967-1990
…year-exposure and 62% > or = 25 year-exposure). Analyses of the yearly incidence of new cases in each group documented the general incremental trend in all groups, with the sharpest rises in group 3…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Silicosis among gemstone workers in South Africa: tiger's-eye pneumoconiosis
…to be confined to stone sculptors. Tried and proven techniques of general and local exhaust ventilation combined with water or oil to control dust at source were capable of effectively reducing dust emission to acceptable levels.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Mortality studies of machining fluid exposure in the automobile industry. III: A case-control study of larynx cancer
…This is the first study, however, to distinguish straight mineral oils from other types of MF. Based on these findings, a general reduction in concentrations of straight mineral oil particulate in occupational environments would be prudent.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Mortality among maintenance employees potentially exposed to asbestos in a refinery and petrochemical plant
…more since first potential exposure. In contrast to asbestos industry worker studies, mortality for lung cancer was substantially lower than the general population (SMR = 81; 95% CI = 63-103). The observed number of deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Proportionate mortality among construction laborers
…of time within the union, were younger, and first entered the union after 1955. This is the first study that has examined the general mortality experience limited to construction laborers only (Bureau of Census code 869).
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos exposure among Finnish lung cancer patients: occupational history and fiber concentration in lung tissue
…construction jobs, and valuable information about the exposure levels could be obtained by the mineral fiber analyses. In general, there was a good accord between the exposure categorization and the fiber burden measured in the lung.