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1. Full Text Exposure–response relationship between chrysotile exposure and mortality from lung cancer and asbestosis
by Deng, Qian and Wang, Xiaorong and Wang, Mianzheng and Lan, Yajia
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, ISSN 1351-0711, 02/2012, Volume 69, Issue 2, pp. 81 - 86
ObjectivesTo describe mortality in workers exposed to chrysotile asbestos, and determine exposure–response relationships between asbestos exposure and... 
Cumulativity | Asbestos | Asbestosis | Mortality | Tobacco smoking | Death | Workplace | Parametric models | Modeling | Lung neoplasms | Cancer | TEXTILE WORKERS | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | DISEASE | PLEURAL PLAQUES | MESOTHELIOMA | SMOKING | MINERS | RISK-ASSESSMENT | MILLERS | Extraction and Processing Industry | Asbestosis - etiology | Prospective Studies | Lung Neoplasms - mortality | Occupational Exposure - adverse effects | Asbestos, Serpentine - adverse effects | Humans | Middle Aged | Occupational Diseases - etiology | Occupations | Male | Asbestosis - mortality | Cause of Death | Air Pollutants, Occupational - adverse effects | Regression Analysis | Occupational Diseases - mortality | Lung Neoplasms - etiology | Models, Biological | Aged | Studies | Dust | Workers | Lung cancer | Classification | Data collection | Health risk assessment | Male employees | Smoking | Lungs | Fibre | Exposure | Chrysotile | Index Medicus
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2. Full Text Estimates of historical exposures by phase contrast and transmission electron microscopy for pooled exposure–response analyses of North Carolina and South Carolina, USA asbestos textile cohorts
by Dement, John M and Loomis, Dana and Richardson, David and Wolf, Susanne H and Kuempel, Eileen D
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, ISSN 1351-0711, 08/2011, Volume 68, Issue 8, pp. 593 - 598
ObjectivesTo develop pooled size-specific asbestos fiber exposure estimates for North Carolina and South Carolina asbestos textile plants.MethodsAirborne... 
Size distribution | Asbestos | Analytical estimating | Regression analysis | Modeling | Parametric models | Raw data | Exposure assessment | Textiles | Estimation methods | Lung neoplasms | MORTALITY | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | CHRYSOTILE | FIBER DIMENSIONS | WORKERS | North Carolina | Microscopy, Electron, Transmission | Mineral Fibers - analysis | Microscopy, Phase-Contrast | Humans | Environmental Monitoring - methods | Textile Industry - statistics & numerical data | South Carolina | Particle Size | Occupational Exposure - analysis | Air Pollutants, Occupational - analysis | Asbestos - analysis | Cohort Studies | Workers | Lung cancer | Aerosols | Estimates | Methods | Investigations | Membrane filters | Carding machines | Index Medicus
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3. Full Text Asbestos Exposure
: questions and answers
National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
2007, Fact sheet, Volume 3.21.
Asbestos | Treatment | Cancer
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4. Full Text Mesothelioma risk after 40 years since first exposure to asbestos: a pooled analysis
by Reid, A and de Klerk, N H and Magnani, C and Ferrante, D and Berry, G and Musk, A W and Merler, E
Thorax, ISSN 0040-6376, 09/2014, Volume 69, Issue 9, pp. 843 - 850
Background The risk of malignant mesothelioma (MM) increases proportionally to the cumulative exposure, and to the 3rd or 4th power of time since first... 
BLUE ASBESTOS | WESTERN-AUSTRALIA | CROCIDOLITE | RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | WORKERS | FOLLOW-UP | WITTENOOM | COHORT | MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA | ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE | CANCER-MORTALITY | Peritoneal Neoplasms - etiology | Pleural Neoplasms - epidemiology | Follow-Up Studies | Peritoneal Neoplasms - epidemiology | Occupational Exposure - adverse effects | Humans | Middle Aged | Child, Preschool | Male | Asbestos, Crocidolite - toxicity | Australia - epidemiology | Pleural Neoplasms - etiology | Young Adult | Time Factors | Asbestos, Serpentine - toxicity | Adolescent | Inhalation Exposure - adverse effects | Mesothelioma - epidemiology | Adult | Female | Italy - epidemiology | Child | Cohort Studies | Mesothelioma - etiology | Mesothelioma | Influence | Asbestos | Epidemiology | Analysis | Risk factors | Index Medicus
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5. Health hazards of asbestos exposure
by Ostiguy, Gaston
1976, 87
Toxicology | Asbestos | Asbestosis | Hygienic aspects | Asbestos industry
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6. Full Text A Bayesian Model and Stochastic Exposure (Dose) Estimation for Relative Exposure Risk Comparison Involving Asbestos‐Containing Dropped Ceiling Panel Installation and Maintenance Tasks
by Boelter, Fred W and Xia, Yulin and Persky, Jacob D
Risk Analysis, ISSN 0272-4332, 09/2017, Volume 37, Issue 9, pp. 1729 - 1741
Assessing exposures to hazards in order to characterize risk is at the core of occupational hygiene. Our study examined dropped ceiling systems commonly used... 
Asbestos | ceiling panel | exposure reconstruction | DECISION-ANALYSIS | MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | RECONSTRUCTION | WORKERS | SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS | Occupational health and safety | Control systems | Models | Panels | Construction materials | Risk | Occupational exposure | Fibers | Friability | Industrial health and safety | Occupational health | Mathematical models | Schools | Construction | Ceilings | Categories | Buildings | Exposure | Maintenance | Exposure limits | Tiles | Workers | Stochasticity | Stochastic models | Commercial buildings | Hazard assessment | Occupational hazards | Bayesian analysis | Hygiene
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7. Full Text A comparison of exposure assessment approaches: lung cancer and occupational asbestos exposure in a population-based case–control study
by Hardt, Jill S and Vermeulen, Roel and Peters, Susan and Kromhout, Hans and McLaughlin, John R and Demers, Paul A
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, ISSN 1351-0711, 04/2014, Volume 71, Issue 4, pp. 282 - 288
Objectives In attempts to overcome the limitations of self-reported data in occupational health research, job-exposure matrices, which assign exposure by... 
Case control studies | Carcinogens | Asbestos | Occupations | Questionnaires | Self reports | Population control | Epidemiology | Exposure assessment | Lung neoplasms | Manual labor | MATRIX | GENERAL-POPULATION | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | NETHERLANDS COHORT | RECALL BIAS | WORKERS | CARCINOGENS | RISK | ASTHMA | SELF-REPORTED EXPOSURE | QUESTIONNAIRE | Prevalence | Lung Neoplasms - chemically induced | Humans | Middle Aged | Risk Factors | Self Report | Logistic Models | Male | Case-Control Studies | Occupational Exposure - classification | Occupational Diseases - chemically induced | Occupational Exposure - analysis | Asbestos - adverse effects | Adult | Female | Aged | Occupational health and safety | Care and treatment | Research | Lung cancer | Analysis | Index Medicus
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8. Full Text Mesothelioma continues to increase even 40 years after exposure – Evidence from long-term epidemiological observation
by Świątkowska, B and Szeszenia-Dąbrowska, N
Lung Cancer, ISSN 0169-5002, 2017, Volume 108, pp. 121 - 125
Highlights • We investigated whether mesothelioma risk continued to increase after asbestos termination. • Nearly three-fold risk was related to exposure that... 
Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine | Pulmonary/Respiratory | Crocidolite exposure | Time since last exposure | Asbestos | Occupational exposure | Epidemiology | Asbestos-related diseases | OCCUPATIONAL ASBESTOS EXPOSURE | BIOPERSISTENCE | PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA | RISK | LUNG-CANCER | ONCOLOGY | RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA | Pleural Neoplasms - epidemiology | Follow-Up Studies | Humans | Middle Aged | Occupational Diseases - etiology | Occupational Exposure | Male | Risk | Case-Control Studies | Pleural Neoplasms - etiology | Poland - epidemiology | Time Factors | Aged, 80 and over | Asbestos - adverse effects | Mesothelioma - epidemiology | Adult | Female | Aged | Occupational Diseases - epidemiology | Odds Ratio | Mesothelioma - etiology | Mesothelioma | Chrysotile | Occupational health and safety | Analysis | Index Medicus
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9. The technical feasibility and cost of controlling workplace exposure to asbestos fibers
: a study
by Bragg, Gordon M., 1939 and Royal Commission on Matters of Health and Safety Arising from the Use of Asbestos in Ontario
1982, Study series / Royal Commission on Matters of Health and Safety Arising from the Use of Asbestos in Ontario, ISBN 9780774373111, Volume no. 7., 149
Asbestos fibers | Safety regulations | Asbestos industry
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10. Full Text Pulmonary abnormalities as a result of exposure to Libby amphibole during childhood and adolescence—The Pre‐Adult Latency Study (PALS)
by Szeinuk, Jaime and Noonan, Curtis W and Henschke, Claudia I and Pfau, Jean and Black, Brad and Miller, Albert and Yankelevitz, David F and Liang, Mingzhu and Liu, Ying and Yip, Rowena and Linker, Laura and McNew, Tracy and Flores, Raja M
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, ISSN 0271-3586, 01/2017, Volume 60, Issue 1, pp. 20 - 34
The purpose of Pre-Adult Latency Study was to evaluate lung findings among adults who had been environmentally exposed to Libby Amphibole only during childhood... 
asbestos | pleural disease | Libby amphibole | Humans | Middle Aged | Asbestos, Amphibole - toxicity | Child, Preschool | Infant | Male | Tomography, X-Ray Computed | Lung Diseases - diagnostic imaging | Forced Expiratory Volume | Young Adult | Time Factors | Pleural Diseases - diagnostic imaging | Adult | Female | Child | Montana | Organ Size | Pleura - diagnostic imaging | Environmental Exposure - adverse effects | Vital Capacity | Dust | Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity | Adolescent | Pleura - pathology | Aged | Lung Diseases - physiopathology | Amphiboles | Adults | Pulmonary function tests | Analysis | Index Medicus
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11. Public health risks of exposure to asbestos
: report of a working group of experts
by Zielhuis, R. L and Commission of the European Communities. Health and Safety Directorate
1977, ISBN 0080215807, 149
Toxicology | Asbestos | Prevention and control | Carcinogens, Environmental | Environmental pollution | Environmental aspects | Poisoning | Carcinogenesis
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12. Full Text Evaluation of Take‐Home Exposure and Risk Associated with the Handling of Clothing Contaminated with Chrysotile Asbestos
by Sahmel, J and Barlow, C. A and Simmons, B and Gaffney, S. H and Avens, H. J and Madl, A. K and Henshaw, J and Lee, R. J and Van Orden, D and Sanchez, M and Zock, M and Paustenbach, D. J
Risk Analysis, ISSN 0272-4332, 08/2014, Volume 34, Issue 8, pp. 1448 - 1468
The potential for para‐occupational (or take‐home) exposures from contaminated clothing has been recognized for the past 60 years. To better characterize the... 
take‐home exposure | exposure assessment | Asbestos | para‐occupational exposure | Para-occupational exposure | Exposure assessment | Take-home exposure | para-occupational exposure | take-home exposure | MORTALITY | CASALE-MONFERRATO | NON-OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE | MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA | STATISTICAL-ANALYSIS | LUNG-CANCER | CAR MECHANICS | MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | REPACKING BOXES | SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS | AIRBORNE ASBESTOS | ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE | Particulate Matter - toxicity | Microscopy, Electron, Transmission | Air Pollutants, Occupational - toxicity | Risk Assessment | Asbestos, Serpentine - analysis | Microscopy, Phase-Contrast | Occupational Exposure - adverse effects | United States | Humans | Housing | Particulate Matter - analysis | Occupational Exposure - analysis | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (U.S.) | Asbestos, Serpentine - toxicity | Occupational Exposure - prevention & control | Air Pollutants, Occupational - analysis | Clothing - adverse effects | Protective Clothing | Maximum Allowable Concentration | Occupational health and safety | Clothing and dress | Chrysotile | Studies | Clothing | Analysis | Human exposure | Risk | Hazardous substances | Contamination | Index Medicus | Exposure | Risk analysis | Handling
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13. Full Text Exploring the Usefulness of Occupational Exposure Registries for Surveillance: The Case of the Ontario Asbestos Workers Registry (1986–2012)
by Koné Pefoyo, Anna J and Genesove, Leon and Moore, Kris and Del Bianco, Ann and Kramer, Desre
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, ISSN 1076-2752, 10/2014, Volume 56, Issue 10, pp. 1100 - 1110
OBJECTIVE:The ongoing presence of asbestos in products used across workplaces in Canada reinforces the importance of occupational exposure surveillance. This... 
MORTALITY | WOMEN | BLUE ASBESTOS | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | CANADA | WITTENOOM | MESOTHELIOMA | Asbestos - toxicity | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Incidence | Adolescent | Ontario - epidemiology | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Registries | Aged | Population Surveillance | Occupational Exposure - statistics & numerical data | Occupational health and safety | Evaluation | Health aspects | Human resource management | Asbestos industry | Occupational health | Asbestos | Occupational hazards | Human exposure | Index Medicus | Original
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14. Full Text Epidemiology of Environmental Exposure and Malignant Mesothelioma
by Liu, Bian and van Gerwen, Maaike and Bonassi, Stefano and Taioli, Emanuela and Int Assoc Study Lung Canc Mesothel and International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Mesothelioma Task Force
Journal of Thoracic Oncology, ISSN 1556-0864, 07/2017, Volume 12, Issue 7, pp. 1031 - 1045
Although the association between exposure to asbestos and malignant mesothelioma (particularly malignant pleural mesothelioma) has been well established, the... 
Asbestos | Non-occupational exposure | Cancer | Fibers | MORTALITY | POPULATION | PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA | RISK | PATTERNS | LUNG-CANCER | IMPACT | ONCOLOGY | RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | SURVEILLANCE | SERUM BIOMARKERS | ASBESTOS-RELATED DISEASES | Environmental Exposure - adverse effects | Lung Neoplasms - epidemiology | Mesothelioma - pathology | Humans | Asbestos - adverse effects | Mesothelioma - epidemiology | Female | Lung Neoplasms - pathology | Male
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