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ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2020

Investigation of the health effects on workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica during outdoor and underground construction projects.

Dimitrios Keramydas, Petros Bakakos, Manos Alchanatis, Petros Papalexis, Ioannis Konstantakopoulos, Kyriaki Tavernaraki, Vasileios Dracopoulos, Antonios Papadakis, Eugenia Pantazi, Georgios Chelidonis and 8 more

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Article in Experimental and therapeutic medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Dimitrios Keramydas1st Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Petros Bakakos1st Department of Pneumonology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Manos Alchanatis1st Department of Pneumonology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Petros Papalexis1st Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Ioannis KonstantakopoulosMinistry of Labor and Social Affairs, National Focal Point of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), 10110 Athens, Greece.
Kyriaki TavernarakiDepartment of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, 'Sotiria' Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Vasileios DracopoulosHellenic Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (ELINYAE), 10445 Athens, Greece.
Antonios PapadakisDirectorate of Public Health, Region of Crete, 71201 Heraklion, Greece.
Eugenia PantaziDepartment of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.
Georgios ChelidonisNational Actuarial Authority, 10559 Athens, Greece, Ministry of Interior, 10563 Athens, Greece.
Elias ChaidoutisMinistry of Interior, 10563 Athens, Greece.
Theodoros C ConstantinidisLaboratory of Hygiene and Environmental Protection, Democritus University of Thrace, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Christina TsitsimpikouGeneral Chemical State Laboratory of Greece, 11521 Athens, Greece.
Nikolaos Kavantzas1st Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Efstratios Patsouris1st Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Konstantinos TsarouhasCardiology Department, University General Hospital of Larissa, 41110 Larissa, Greece.
Demetrios A SpandidosLaboratory of Clinical Virology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.
Andreas Ch Lazaris1st Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRDemocritus University of Thrace · GRGeneral Chemical State LaboratoryRegional Energy Agency of Crete · GRSotiria General Hospital · GRUniversity Hospital of Larissa · GRUniversity of Crete · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic exposure of workers to powder containing crystalline silica (Silicon dioxide; SiO

Indexed as

construction workersoccupational exposureoccupational exposure limitoccupational healthsilicosisSiO2

Identifiers

PMID32742330
PMCPMC7388242
OpenAlexW3009121323

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