3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Malignant mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos in dental practice
…found 0.7 x 10^6 crocidolite fibres per gram of dry lung. The authors described this as lower than expected with longstanding occupational exposure but higher than in the general population. No chrysotile fibres were found…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Combined effect of asbestos exposure and smoking on mortality from lung cancer in factory workers
…from hospital records, family doctors and relatives. Lung-cancer deaths were compared with the numbers expected from general-population rates adjusted for smoking. Workers with low-to-moderate exposure showed no significant excess, whether they smoked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…current or ex-smokers, against less than 0.5% of women. Compared with the general population, lung cancer mortality was estimated at about 17-fold in men and four-fold in women. People tended to be…