973 results for “General Electric”, page 30 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Impact of biopersistent fibrous dusts on glycolysis, glutaminolysis and serine metabolism in A549 cells
The conversion rates of different metabolic pathways summarized as a metabolic signature mirror the physiological functions and the general physiological status of a cell. The present study compared the impact of crocidolite and chrysotile asbestos, glass…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Re-evaluation and re-classification of erionite series minerals
Governments and industries have introduced regulatory measures requiring safety controls to limit asbestos exposure of the general public and asbestos workers. Although erionite is a more potent health hazard mineral than asbestos, it has received far…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is a lethal disease. It is rare in the general population; however, workers exposed to asbestos suffer significant burdens of the neoplasm. The survival time of 457 consecutive fatal cases of pleural and peritoneal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
COVID-19 in patients with thoracic malignancies (TERAVOLT): first results of an international, registry-based, cohort study
Early reports on patients with cancer and COVID-19 have suggested a high mortality rate compared with the general population. Patients with thoracic malignancies are thought to be particularly susceptible to COVID-19 given their older…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Asbestos exposure and ovarian fiber burden
Epidemiologic studies suggest increased risk of epithelial ovarian cancer in female asbestos workers and increased risk of malignancy in general in household contacts of asbestos workers. Ovaries were studied from 13 women with household contact with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
The use of indwelling pleural catheters for the management of malignant pleural effusion--direct costs in a Dutch hospital
Indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) are increasingly used in the treatment of malignant pleural effusion (MPE). In general, these catheters have been reported to manage MPE efficiently. Unfortunately, insurance companies in the Netherlands do not reimburse these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Identifying predictors of personal exposure to air temperature in peri-urban India
…To date, no study evaluating personal air temperature in the general population has been conducted in a low-and-middle income country. We used data from the CHAI study consisting of 50 adults monitored in up…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
External quality assurance in nongynecologic cytology: The Australasian experience
…since 1993. Glass slide preparations of a wide range of nongynecologic cases were circulated to approximately 200 cytopathology laboratories in 16 countries. General nongynecologic cytology cases were manufactured from residual specimens after routine diagnosis. Fine-needle…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Exposure-Response Analyses of Asbestos and Lung Cancer Subtypes in a Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies
…asbestos exposure and assessed the joint effect of asbestos exposure and smoking by sex and lung cancer subtype in general population studies. We pooled 14 case-control studies conducted in 1985-2010 in Europe and Canada…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Asbestos-Environment Pollution Characteristics and Health-Risk Assessment in Typical Asbestos-Mining Area
…has been confirmed as a major pollutant in asbestos-mining areas that are located in western China. In general, asbestos-fibre dust will is released into the environment due to the effect of intensive industrial activities…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Mortality risk among workers with exposure to dioxins
…experience of workers exposed to dioxins during trichlorophenol (TCP) and pentachlorophenol (PCP) production to that of the general population and to examine mortality risk by estimated exposure levels. A retrospective cohort study which followed up workers'…
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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 · 2018
New Perspectives on Diagnosis and Therapy of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
…with an incidence that varies significantly within and among different countries around the world. It develops in about one to two persons per million of the general population, leading to thousands of deaths every year worldwide…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Well-Differentiated Papillary Mesothelioma With Two Synchronous Serous Gynaecologic Carcinomas in a 62-Year-Old Woman: Lessons Learned for the Gynaecologic Surgeon
…of WDPM in a woman with synchronous serous carcinomas of the gynaecologic tract and highlight lessons learned for general gynaecologists and gynaecologic oncologists alike. A 62-year-old woman was referred for assessment and management of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Asbestos in High-Risk Communities: Public Health Implications
…lung cancer, and asbestosis-are well known as occupational diseases. As industrial asbestos use is eliminated, ARDs within the general community from para-occupational, environmental, and natural exposures are more prominent. ARD clusters have been studied…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Pleural plaques by inhalation of asbestos fibers
…up to 3 to 58% of workers who were exposed to asbestos fiber, and 0.5 to 8% in the general population. The objective of this article is to present a case report of a patient…
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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 · 1991
Asbestos fibers are mutagenic after all: new signs of orthodoxy for a paradoxical group of carcinogens
…held that they lacked clear genotoxic potential. He summarized earlier work. There was general agreement that asbestos fibers induced aneuploidy and chromosome breaks. Results on sister chromatid exchanges disagreed. Mammalian cell specific-locus assays had reported…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Sarcomas in organ allograft recipients
…sarcomas were 7.4% of cancers. Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) made up 5.7%, and other sarcomas (OS) 1.7% a much higher proportion than in the general population. KS was most common in Arab, black…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1931
Recent Views on Pneumonoconioses
Silicosis has been intensively studied since it was isolated from other diseases caused by dust. These studies have shown that silicosis may be fairly advanced without seriously impairing general health; it may, however, itself lead to…