35 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Does occupational exposure to brown coal dust cause a decline in lung function?
…time windows. This study was conducted over a period of 14 years from 1980 to 1994 and used data collected by the State Electricity Commission (SEC) Lung Function Unit for an asbestos surveillance programme. The subjects…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Inequities in reporting asbestos-related lung cancer: influence of smoking stigma and physician's specialty, workload and role perception
…claims for asbestos-related cancers, focusing on smokers' stigma and physicians' speciality and role perception. Cross-sectional telephone study of 486 randomly-selected general practitioners (GPs) and pulmonologists in south-eastern France. Standardised questionnaires explored their…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos lung burden and asbestosis after occupational and environmental exposure in an asbestos cement manufacturing area: a necropsy study
This necropsy (autopsy) study examined lung tissue from the consecutive autopsies done at the General Hospital of Casale Monferrato, Italy, home to a large asbestos cement factory, from July 1985 to July 1988. Of 55 autopsies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Occupational and work-related respiratory disease attributed to cleaning products
This study analysed work-related respiratory disease reported to the UK THOR surveillance network by chest physicians (1989–2017), occupational physicians (1999–2017) and general practitioners (2006–2017). It concerns cleaning products; asbestos cases were excluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Peritoneal mesothelioma and asbestos exposure: a population-based case-control study in Lombardy, Italy
…to its rarity, PeM has rarely been investigated in community-based studies. We examined the association between asbestos exposure and PeM risk in a general population in Lombardy, Italy. From the regional mesothelioma registry, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Mortality and cancer morbidity in a cohort of Canadian petroleum workers
…1964 and 1994 and worked at least one year. Their records were linked to national death and cancer registry data and compared with the general Canadian population. The authors also estimated exposure to hydrocarbon solvents/fuels…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Updated mortality among diverse operating segments of a petroleum company
…in the earlier study. Analyses used standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare worker cause specific mortality with the Canadian general population. Duration of employment and latency analyses were performed for causes previously found to be increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung cancer and mesothelioma in the pleura and peritoneum among Swedish insulation workers
…some years after the exposure had ended. In a cohort study the cancer morbidity and cause of death was investigated in 248 insulation workers and compared with the corresponding morbidity and mortality in the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Update of a prospective study of mortality and cancer incidence in the Australian petroleum industry
…to 31 December 1996, comparing their deaths and cancers with national rates. Men's overall death rate was below the general population's (SMR 0.68, 95% CI 0.63 to 0.73). Their overall cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Occupational exposure to carcinogens and risk of lung cancer: results from The Netherlands cohort study
…dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and welding fumes) in a prospective cohort study among the general population, and to estimate the proportion of lung cancer cases attributable to these occupational exposures. A prospective cohort study on diet…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Workplace exposures and oesophageal cancer
…between 1979 and 1985. It compared 99 men with oesophageal cancer (63 with squamous cell carcinoma) with 1,066 controls: 533 men from the general population and 533 men with other cancers. Chemists and industrial hygienists…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Setting new standards for epidemiological research on mesothelioma
…control study. Controls were resected lung cancer cases, who represent less advanced disease and would be expected to have higher fibre burdens than the general population. Sample retrieval among controls was 262/420 (62.4%). They…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Author reply: 'Response to: Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features' by Araki et al
…earlier study found pleural abnormalities in 1.5% of the cohort, which they suggested could be an index of asbestos exposure in the general population. They wrote that every case was confirmed by at least two…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Comparison of exposure assessment methods for occupational carcinogens in a multi-centre lung cancer case-control study
…re-applied to all study subjects. Third, an independent general population JEM (GPJEM) was created by occupational exposure experts not involved in the original study, and applied to study subjects. Results from these methods were compared…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Asbestosis and lobar site of lung cancer
…68.8% among workers with asbestosis were in the lower lobes, compared with 28.6% in the city's general population. A later cohort of 4060 asbestos workers (1985–96) used the same upper-plus-lower…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Update of mortality and cancer incidence in the Australian petroleum industry cohort
…and drivers had more kidney cancer than expected (12 cases v 5.84 expected). Lung cancer incidence among men was lower than in the general population (SIR 0.69, 95% CI 0.57 to 0.83)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Update of the Texaco mortality study 1947-93: Part II
…colleagues in their update of the Texaco mortality study. The author argued that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer rates than the general population, so maintenance workers exposed to asbestos should be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Occupation and risk of stomach cancer in Poland
…between 1994 and 1996. Controls (n = 479) were randomly selected from the general population in Warsaw. Only a few occupations and industries were associated with significantly increased risks of stomach cancer. The most suggestive finding…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Occupational exposures and pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis
…statistical test showed significant variation between these studies. Twenty populations compared with general-population rates gave a statistically significant ratio of 1.2 (1.0 to 1.5), while four case-control populations gave 0.7…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features
The prevalence of pleural abnormalities in the general population is an epidemiologically important index of asbestos exposure, which has not been investigated since a radiography-based study in 1980. We examined 2633 chest CT scans (mean…