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Page 3508 1 And is that because of this analysis that 2 you have done? 3 A And my opinion is based on my review of all 4 of the studies on garage mechanics. 5 Q As a specialist in occupational 6 epidemiology, Dr. Wong, do you believe that there is 7 additional work from an epidemiologic study standpoint 8 that needs to be done on this topic? 9 A I don't think so because we have four well10 done studies. Together they have more than 1,400 11 cases of mesothelioma. 12 Now, if you ask me the same question in the 13 early 1980s when we have only the Connecticut State 14 Health Department study, I will say yes, that is only 15 one study and it is a relatively small study, but not 16 after we have four major studies. 17 Q Okay. So we have talked about the concept 18 of relative risk as it applies to mesothelioma in 19 garage mechanics. 20 Are you able to also apply the criteria that 21 we talked about earlier to the topic of mesothelioma