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1 studies. There are different forms.
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2 Cohort study is going to go on and take a
3 group of people called a cohort, just a group and you
4 look at them at a point in time, so they start out
5 without disease and follow them over time and count
6 how many get disease over a period of time.
7 Q And did there continue to appear in the
8 medical and scientific literature additional reports
9 of development of disease as a result of asbestos
10 exposure in additional secondary -- in more secondary
11 users?
12 A Yes. The reports continue to accumulate.
13 If you look at case reports and any case series, this
14 is just a summary of some of those articles, and if
15 you look at starting in 1932, you have insulators,
16 boiler riveter, a welder, insulator, asbestos handler,
17 and these are all considered secondary users,
18 including starting in the '30s and '40s, the
19 shipyards.
20 Q So we are sure, these aren't people that are
21 in manufacturing plants making the product; is that