2 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos fibers in the general population
…pleura. Counts did not differ significantly by sex or smoking. The authors concluded that substantial asbestos, mostly too small to form asbestos bodies, is present in the average urban lung and probably reflects general environmental contamination.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Analysis of the cores of asbestos bodies from members of the general population: patients with probable low-degree exposure to asbestos
…to 9,000 of such bodies/g of lung tissue, a concentration frequently found in manual laborers in the general population who are not primary asbestos workers. All of the 123 bodies examined by electron diffraction…