2 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Prevalence of pleural calcification in persons exposed to asbestos dust, and in the general population in the same district
…not minus only the 8. Each exposed group had more cases than expected from the general population (workers: 42 against an expected 2.75). The authors reported these differences as statistically significant at the 1% level…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Historical background to the asbestos problem
…with the Cape asbestos field, and Doll's 1955 finding that men employed 20 or more years at a large asbestos works had 10 times the general population's lung cancer risk. The authors concluded that…