35 results for “General Electric”, page 2 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and occupational and non-occupational asbestos exposure: a case-control study with quantitative risk assessment
…Monferrato (north west Italy) is an area with an exceptionally high incidence of mesothelioma caused by asbestos contamination at work and in the general environment from the asbestos-cement Eternit plant that was operational until 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Digestive cancers and occupational asbestos exposure: incidence study in a cohort of asbestos plant workers
…occupationally exposed to asbestos. The incidence of digestive cancers was calculated from 1 January 1978 to 31 December 2009 and compared with levels among the local general population using Standardised Incidence Ratios (SIRs). Asbestos exposure was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Mortality and cancer incidence of Australian participants in the British nuclear tests in Australia
…were compared with rates in the general male Australian population. Dose reconstructions were carried out by a panel of health physicists. Mortality and cancer rates were compared with the general population and between groups of subjects…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Updated epidemiological study of workers at two California petroleum refineries, 1950-95
…cohort study of workers at two petroleum refineries in California was undertaken. Mortality analyses were based on standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) using the general population of California as a reference…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer risks in relation to occupational history and asbestos lung burden
We have conducted a population-based study of pleural mesothelioma patients with occupational histories and measured asbestos lung burdens in occupationally exposed workers and in the general population. The relationship between lung burden and risk, particularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
A cohort study of mortality among Ontario pipe trades workers
…Canadian Mortality Registry at Statistics Canada. Standardised mortality ratios were computed using Ontario general population mortality rates as the reference. There were significant increases in lung cancer mortality rates (SMR 1.27; 95% CI 1.13…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Pleural mesothelioma and exposure to asbestos: evaluation from work histories and analysis of asbestos bodies in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid or lung tissue in 131 patients
…to asbestos, a large group of subjects seemed to have a history of exposure or lung retention of asbestos bodies suggestive of very low levels of cumulative exposure, similar to those described in the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
A comparison of exposure assessment approaches: lung cancer and occupational asbestos exposure in a population-based case-control study
…assessment of occupational exposure to asbestos was compared using self-reports and a general population job-exposure matrix (DOM-JEM). Cases and frequency matched controls provided life-time job histories and self-reported exposures to potential…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Exposure to non-arsenic pesticides is associated with lymphoma among farmers in Spain
…with all other occupations. Farmers were analysed according to the type of farming job performed: crop farming, animal farming, and general farming. Occupational exposure was summarised into 15 main categories: organic dust, radiation, contact with animals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Mortality among shipyard Coast Guard workers: a retrospective cohort study
…In addition, 20 job groups were created on likely similar exposures. Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated based on the general population of the state and adjusted for age, calendar period, sex and race. The follow…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Trends in mortality from occupational hazards among men in England and Wales during 1979-2010
…and declining mortality from some diseases across the whole population. Notable exceptions to the general improvement were diseases caused by asbestos, especially in some construction trades and sinonasal cancer in woodworkers. The highest priority for future…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Mortality in a cohort of vermiculite miners exposed to fibrous amphibole in Libby, Montana
…a 14% increase in mortality for mine workers exposed occupationally to 100 f/ml.y or about 3.2% for a general population exposed for 50 years to an ambient concentration of 0.1 f/ml…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Lung cancer incidence in Canadian petroleum workers
…cancer incidence, although exposures to the single agents studied did not emerge as strong predictors of lung cancer incidence. Maintenance work may be a surrogate for general exposures to several agents (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, metals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Cardiovascular disease mortality among British asbestos workers (1971-2005)
…exposure was also statistically significant in this model. Cerebrovascular and IHD mortality was significantly higher among these asbestos workers than in the general population and within the cohort mortality was associated with indicators of asbestos exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Extended follow-up of lung cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease mortality among California diatomaceous earth workers
…significant. Associations were attenuated when adjusted for smoking and asbestos exposure. Mortality from NMRD was significantly increased over the entire follow-up compared to the general population (SMR=1.37, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.60)…