973 results for “General Electric”, page 28 of 49
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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 · 1991
Mesothelioma and non-occupational environmental exposure to asbestos
…the plant. The numbers were small, but rates appeared to fall with distance from Casale Monferrato. They discussed possible biases and concluded that a cancer risk from asbestos may arise in the general, non-occupational environment.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
New molecular and epidemiological issues in mesothelioma: role of SV40
…was difficult to draw conclusions. They suggested that SV40 and asbestos might act together. The authors concluded that it would be premature to reach definitive conclusions about SV40's role in mesothelioma in the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Peritoneal mesothelioma: the role of computed tomography in diagnosis and follow up
…On follow-up, seven of eight patients showed increasing disease, but this was judged by general impression rather than precise measurement. The authors found no CT feature that was diagnostic. They concluded that CT is at…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Smoking prevalence of asbestos workers: a comment
…letter also cited other reports of 49.9% and 41.9% current smokers among construction workers, and 27.7% in the general population. The authors suggested that the older group's lower rate reflected a survivor…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Factors associated with cancer distress in the Asbestos Post-Exposure Survey (APEXS)
…asbestos will develop a disease was also associated with distress. The authors concluded that exposed subjects showed more distress than earlier studies had described. They noted their volunteer comparison group may not represent the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Environmental exposure to asbestos: A factor in the rising rate of cancer in the industrialized world?
…exposure could not easily be discounted. The author still saw no reason to change the Lyon conference conclusion of no evidence of a risk to the general public at present. The author urged physicians to take…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Epidemiological and quantitative relationships between mesothelioma and asbestos on Tyneside
…fibres remains statistically significant. The data suggest that, on Tyneside, exposure to asbestos sufficient to cause an appreciable risk of developing mesothelioma has usually occurred through occupational exposure rather than by general environmental pollution by asbestos.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Environmental epidemiology. 3. Community effects of nonoccupational environmental asbestos exposure
…raised several open questions: unrecognized occupational exposure, whether the bodies were truly asbestos, whether general air pollution causes disease, and how to allow for smoking and long latency. They concluded that well-defined cohort studies with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Dose-response relationships for asbestos-related disease: implications for hygiene standards. Part II. Mortality
…first exposure and duration were shown, with gastrointestinal cancer and asbestosis set aside. The author concluded that occupational exposure must be rigorously monitored, but that risk to the general population is likely to be extremely low.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Analysis of asbestos fiber burden in lung tissue from mesothelioma patients
…those without, but the authors found the ranges too wide to predict asbestosis from fiber counts. The authors concluded that most patients had a confirmed asbestos burden above general population levels, often of mixed types. They…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Gene expression profiles in asbestos-exposed epithelial and mesothelial lung cell lines
…The authors noted that cell experiments cannot precisely reflect conditions in the body, and that many changes probably reflect general responses to toxic substances. The authors concluded that the study identified several targets for further investigation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
The in vitro activities of a highly carcinogenic mineral fibre--potassium octatitanate
…with present techniques, genotoxicity tests cannot rank mineral fibres by carcinogenicity, and that general cytotoxic activity remains the best predictor. They noted that the weak, poorly dose-related transformation response may indicate activity near the assay…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Microwave polymerisation of epoxy resin: rapid processing technique in ultrastructural pathology
…than 2mm across polymerised slightly unevenly. A lymphoma sample given both microwave fixation and polymerisation was of very acceptable quality. The authors concluded that microwave polymerisation is practicable, although its general usefulness remained to be established.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Predictors of participant retention in two chemoprevention feasibility trials
…the placebo run-in. The most frequently reported reasons for becoming inactive during the pilot studies were general health issues and problems and symptoms that were seen as specific to the CARET vitamins. These findings suggest…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
The social context of occupational disease: asbestos and South Africa
General issues of industrial health are raised in relation to the production of asbestos and asbestos-related diseases in South Africa., A historical analysis of these diseases and their control in Britain demonstrates some general problems…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
The relationship between respiratory impairment and asbestos-related pleural abnormality in an active work force
With the general improvement in environmental controls in workplaces where asbestos is used, an increasing number of workers are seen who exhibit isolated pleural plaques. The question as to whether these are associated with respiratory impairment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Environmental asbestos pollution -- situation in Poland
Environmental exposure of the general population to asbestos in Poland is mainly due to degradation of very popular asbestos-cement products and the resultant release of the elementary asbestos fibres into the ambient air. Assessments of…
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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…