5 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Radiographic asbestosis is not a prerequisite for asbestos-associated lung cancer in Ontario asbestos-cement workers
…hired before 1960 who had at least one chest X-ray available. Deaths were tracked to the end of 1985 and compared with the general population of Ontario. A single certified reader classified the X-rays…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Mortality among employees of an Ontario factory manufacturing insulation materials from amosite asbestos
…from chest X-ray surveillance records. The list was matched to national death records, and deaths were compared with Ontario's general male population. Among workers classed as asbestos-exposed, 12 died 10 or more years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Letter to the Editor re Bernstein et al: Health risk of chrysotile revisited. Crit Rev Toxicol, 2013; 43(2): 154-183
…and millers with pleural mesothelioma than in miners without asbestos-related disease. Churg and Wiggs (1986) found long chrysotile fibers in the lungs of many exposed workers but few general-population controls. Rogers and colleagues (1991)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Absence of radiographic asbestosis and the risk of lung cancer among asbestos-cement workers: Extended follow-up of a cohort
…Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs) were calculated using the general population of Ontario as reference. Among asbestos-cement workers without radiographic asbestosis at 20 years latency the lung cancer SMR was 3.84 (2.24-6.14…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Mortality among long-term employees of an Ontario asbestos-cement factory
…or who had been otherwise minimally exposed to asbestos, had mortality rates similar to those of the general Ontario population, while the group of asbestos-exposed employees had all-cause mortality rates double those of the…