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786525

Reference Type

Book/Book Chapter

Title

The third wave of asbestos disease: Exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control

Author(s)

Landrigan, PJ; Kazemi, H

Year

1991

Publisher

New York Academy of Sciences

Location

New York, NY

Language

English

PMID

1687306

URL

https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17496632/1991/643/1
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Abstract

Proceedings of a conference held in New York, USA, 7-9 June 1990 under the aegis of the Collegium Ramazzini. Papers are presented under the following headings: the spectrum of asbestos-related disease; tissue burdens; dose-response; radiologic abnormalities - recent developments and epidemiologic utilisation; physiological decrements due to asbestos exposure; latency and progression; neoplasms of asbestos exposure; the search for basic mechanisms of the asbestos effect; populations at risk (construction, sheet metal, refinery, shipyard, railroad, steel, glass and petrochemical workers, merchant seamen and nonoccupational groups); mesothelioma; carcinogenicity of chrysotile and tremolite; asbestos in public buildings; disease resulting from asbestos exposure in buildings; asbestos abatement.

Series

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 643, no. 1

ISBN

9780897666770

Conference Name

The Third Wave of Asbestos Disease Exposure to Asbestos in Place

Conference Location

New York, NY

Conference Dates

June 7-9, 1990

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