Low-Level Respirable Crystalline Silica and Silicosis: Long-Term Follow-Up of Vermont Granite Workers.

Pamela M Vacek, Robert E Glenn, John E Parker

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

One-year lung transplantation outcomes for engineered stone countertop workers with silicosis at a single center in Southern California, 2019 to 2023.JHLT open · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Pamela M VacekMedical Biostatistics Unit, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.

Robert E GlennGlenn Consulting Group, 2784 Little Creek Road, Seabrook Island, SC 29455, USA.

John E ParkerPulmonary and Critical Medicine, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.

Funding

National Stone Sand and Gravel Association Contract with the University of Vermont

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lifetime risk of silicosis associated with low-level occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica remains unclear because most previous radiographic studies included workers with varying exposure concentrations and durations. This study assessed the prevalence of silicosis after lengthy exposure to respirable crystalline silica at levels ≤ 0.10 mg/m

Indexed as

Occupational ExposureSilicon DioxideSilicosisAdultAgedAir Pollutants, OccupationalFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansInhalation ExposureMaleMiddle AgedPrevalenceVermontAir Pollutants, OccupationalgraniteSilicon Dioxidechest radiographcrystalline silicaexposuregranitesilicosis

Identifiers

PMID38791822

DOI10.3390/ijerph21050608

PMCPMC11121253

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