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ArticleAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2025

Deadly Countertops: An Urgent Need to Eliminate Silicosis among Engineered Stone Workers.

Amy Heinzerling, Robert Harrison, Jennifer Flattery, Jane C Fazio, Sheiphali Gandhi, Kristin J Cummings

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Article in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2025. 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
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

  1. Silicosis from dry-cutting engineered stone in the fabrication of countertops.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2026
    Article
  2. Artificial stone and silicosis: the Korean experience.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2026
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Combating Global Silicosis Epidemics: Can We Alter Sisyphus's Fate?American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025
    Article
  5. We'll Look Back and Say, "Why Didn't We Act Sooner on Engineered Stone?"American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025
    Article
  6. Reply to CurrowAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025
    Article
  7. Article
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

6 authors.

Amy HeinzerlingOccupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California.ORCID 0000-0001-8808-3004
Robert HarrisonOccupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California.ORCID 0000-0002-9963-8009
Jennifer FlatteryOccupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California.ORCID 0000-0002-3158-4649
Jane C FazioDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; and.ORCID 0000-0002-3406-4542
Sheiphali GandhiDivision of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.ORCID 0000-0003-3156-7619
Kristin J CummingsOccupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California.ORCID 0000-0002-5422-9199

Funding

NIOSH CDC HHS 2U60OH008468NIOSH CDC HHS 75D30122P14131NIOSH CDC HHS U19 OH012293NIOSH CDC HHS U19OH012293NIOSH CDC HHS U60 OH008468
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID39746192
PMCPMC12005022

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