22 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Electron microscope characteristics of inhaled chrysotile asbestos fibre
This study described how chrysotile asbestos looks under the electron microscope in human lung tissue. The author examined specimens from about 300 lungs: general population groups, people with pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma and their controls, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Incidence of cancer and mortality among workers exposed to mercury vapour in the Norwegian chloralkali industry
…the mortality were followed up from 1953 to 1989 and 1953 to 1988 respectively. The general Norwegian male population served as a reference population. There was a lung cancer excess of borderline significance (standardised incidence ratio…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Combined effect of asbestos and smoking on mortality from lung cancer and mesothelioma in factory workers
…Deaths were tracked to 1980. There was no unexposed comparison group, so lung cancer deaths were compared with numbers expected from death rates in the general population of the region, adjusted for smoking. After this adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos: a chronology of its origins and health effects
…by Leeds doctors. They reported that Dr Ian M D Grieve, a Leeds general practitioner in the 1920s, saw patients from a local factory that made insulation mattresses for steam engines from blue asbestos, which had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos associated tumours in car mechanics
…cancer register (1961-79, ages 20 to 69), and compared observed cases with the numbers expected from the general population. One mesothelioma was found in the cancer register and none in the death register. That man…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers to the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer
…137 participants from 20 countries; the committee then reported on evidence since 1964. It answered general questions and recommended research. It stated that all major commercial asbestos types can cause lung carcinoma, with clear risk differences…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
International classification trial of AIA set of 100 radiographs of asbestos workers
…the best estimate for each film. For small opacities in the lung tissue, the authors judged that differences between readers were not large compared with general variability in reading. Even so, the share of films each…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos: a chronology of its origins and health effects
…described, Doll's 1955 study of 113 men who had worked at least 20 years where they were exposed to asbestos dust found an average lung cancer risk 10 times that of the general population. Wagner…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Analysis of lung asbestos content
…In the author's laboratory the upper 95th percentile for the Vancouver general population was around 1 000 000 fibres each of chrysotile and tremolite and 10 000 fibres of amosite plus crocidolite per g of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers 1955
…was a specific industrial hazard of certain asbestos workers and that the average risk among men employed for 20 or more years has been of the order of 10 times that experienced by the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers
…was a specific industrial hazard of certain asbestos workers and that the average risk among men employed for 20 or more years has been of the order of 10 times that experienced by the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Mortality among United Kingdom servicemen who served abroad in the 1950s and 1960s
The Registrar General's decennial supplements on occupational mortality provide only limited information on mortality in the armed forces in the United Kingdom. Mortality has therefore been studied among a group of 30,619 United Kingdom…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
UK Naval Dockyards asbestosis study: survey of the sample population aged 50-59 years
As part of a general morbidity study of all civilian employees in the four Royal Naval Dockyards, the clinical, radiological and physiological effects of exposure to asbestos in 1200 men aged 50-59 years were studied…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is a lethal disease. It is rare in the general population; however, workers exposed to asbestos suffer significant burdens of the neoplasm. The survival time of 457 consecutive fatal cases of pleural and peritoneal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Kinetics of deposition and clearance of inhaled mineral dusts during chronic exposure
…Nevertheless, the general pattern exhibited by our results for asbestos is markedly similar to that found elsewhere for rats inhaling diesel fume, leading to the suggestion that it is general (and not specific to fibrous dust)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Asbestos content of lung tissue in asbestos associated diseases: a study of 110 cases
…which are the hallmark of asbestos exposure, were present in the lungs of virtually everyone in the general population and present at increased levels in individuals with asbestos associated diseases. The highest numbers of AB occurred…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Incidence of cancer among welders, platers, machinists, and pipe fitters in shipyards and machine shops
…postal questionnaire sent to a sample of 961 workers. The smoking habits of the cohorts were similar and smoking was not more common than among the general population. The total number of cases of cancer was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Cancer mortality and exposure to crocidolite
…a further 800 f/ml shorter than 5 µm. Samples from the general area outside the plant showed up to 2 f/ml longer than 5 µm. Rogers noted that de Klerk et al had applied…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Predictions of mortality from mesothelial tumours in asbestos factory workers
…mortality and somewhat higher for women. The highest number of deaths from mesothelial tumours will occur during the 1980s, thereafter the numbers will decline because of the decreasing size of the cohort resulting from general mortality.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Validation of death certificates in asbestos workers
…Validation of death certificates in asbestos workers. The Registrar General has supplied the certified cause of death of 436 past workers in an asbestos factory. An attempt was made to follow up the 301 (69%) deaths…