Textile Industry
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Subject Areas on Research
- An epidemiological study of the role of chrysotile asbestos fibre dimensions in determining respiratory disease risk in exposed workers.
- An industrial study of the biological effects of cotton dust and cigarette smoke exposure.
- Asbestos fibre dimensions and lung cancer mortality among workers exposed to chrysotile.
- Asbestos standards: Impact of currently uncounted chrysotile asbestos fibers on lifetime lung cancer risk.
- Byssinosis and chronic bronchitis among cotton textile workers.
- Byssinosis and respiratory diseases of cotton mill workers.
- Byssinosis in a nontextile worker.
- Carcinogenicity of chrysotile asbestos: a case control study of textile workers.
- Development of a fibre size-specific job-exposure matrix for airborne asbestos fibres.
- Differential aerosol challenge studies in byssinosis.
- Dose response studies in cotton textile workers.
- Environmental aspects of fibrous glass production and utilization.
- 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.
- Estimates of historical exposures by phase contrast and transmission electron microscopy in North Carolina USA asbestos textile plants.
- Evaluation before and after exposure--the pattern of physiological response to cotton dust.
- Exponential models for analyses of time-related factors, illustrated with asbestos textile worker mortality data.
- Exposures and mortality among chrysotile asbestos workers. Part I: exposure estimates.
- Exposures and mortality among chrysotile asbestos workers. Part II: mortality.
- Factors influencing flux decline during nanofiltration of solutions containing dyes and salts.
- Follow-up study of chrysotile asbestos textile workers: cohort mortality and case-control analyses.
- Follow-up study of chrysotile textile workers: cohort mortality and exposure-response.
- Increased lung cancer mortality among chrysotile asbestos textile workers is more strongly associated with exposure to long thin fibres.
- Lung cancer mortality among asbestos textile workers: a review and update.
- Lung cancer mortality and fibre exposures among North Carolina asbestos textile workers.
- Lung cancer mortality in North Carolina and South Carolina chrysotile asbestos textile workers.
- Mortality patterns among female and male chrysotile asbestos textile workers.
- Musculoskeletal symptoms among female garment factory workers in Sri Lanka.
- Occurrence of oral and pharyngeal cancers in textile workers.
- Oral and pharyngeal cancer in the North-west and West Yorkshire regions of England, and occupation.
- Preprocessing cotton to prevent byssinosis.
- Pulmonary fibrosis and ferruginous bodies associated with exposure to synthetic fibers.
- Scrotal cancer in the north-west of England, 1962-68.
- Squamous cell skin cancer in the north-west of England, 1967--69, and its relation to occupation.
- The pathology of interstitial lung disease in nylon flock workers.
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Keywords of People
- Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine