10 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Relation between exposure to asbestos and mesothelioma
…53 from lung cancer. For comparison, an American Cancer Society general-population study recorded only 3 deaths from pleural mesothelioma among 31,652 deaths. Among the 10 workers who died of mesothelioma, none developed it less…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…based on only 13 shipyard asbestosis deaths. Overall, shipyard insulators' mortality did not differ substantially from that of insulators in general. Second, in 1975 and 1976 the authors X-rayed 1000 volunteer workers at a shipyard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Historical background to the asbestos problem
…with the Cape asbestos field, and Doll's 1955 finding that men employed 20 or more years at a large asbestos works had 10 times the general population's lung cancer risk. The authors concluded that…
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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 · 1992
Use of death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: variations in discordance of different asbestos-associated diseases on best evidence ascertainment
There is extensive information on discordance in general between accuracy of medical diagnoses on death certificate categorization of cause of death and available clinical and histopathological data. This is as true for occupational disease as for…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Spirometric abnormalities among asbestos insulation workers
…years after onset of exposure, 26 (7.4%) had FVC below 70% of predicted, a prevalence similar to that reported in nonexposed general populations. Prevalence increased with time from onset of exposure. Of the 117 workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1967
Asbestosis and neoplasia
…consecutive deaths among insulation workers (1943-1966), 17 (about 5%) were due to mesothelioma, against about 1 in 10,000 deaths in the general population. In Dresden, lung cancer deaths rose as deaths from severe asbestosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Pulmonary function in asbestosis: serial tests in a long-term prospective study
…of the 13 patients. There was also a fall in maximum breathing capacity, but in general they remained relatively well preserved. Air velocity indices showed an upward trend in more than half, and in only one…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Spirometric impairments in long-term insulators. Relationships to duration of exposure, smoking, and radiographic abnormalities
…and reduced FEV1/FVC are both more frequent in insulators who have smoked (compared with NS insulators or smokers in the general population) suggests an interaction between asbestos and smoking in producing both these physiologic abnormalities.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The occurrence of pleural calcification among asbestos insulation workers
…the pleura was found to be immune. The diagnostic importance of such unilateral calcification is stressed since even unilateral calcification is uncommon in the general population and when it occurs, a traumatic or infectious history can…