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Response to: Correspondence on ‘Demographic, exposure and clinical characteristics in a multinational registry of engineered stone workers with silicosis’ by Hoy et al
  1. Jeremy Tang Hua1,2,
  2. Lauren Zell-Baran1,
  3. Leonard H T Go3,
  4. Mordechai R Kramer4,
  5. Johanna B Van Bree4,
  6. Daniel Chambers5,
  7. Katrina Newbigin6,
  8. David Deller7,
  9. Michael Matula8,
  10. Elizabeth Fireman9,
  11. Mor Dahbash10,
  12. Cristina Martinez-Gonzalez11,
  13. Antonio León-Jimenez12,
  14. Coralynn Sack13,
  15. Jaume Ferrer Sancho14,
  16. Ana Villar15,
  17. Kirsten S Almberg3,
  18. Robert A Cohen16,17,
  19. Cecile S Rose1,2
  1. 1 Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA
  2. 2 Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
  3. 3 School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  4. 4 Pulmonary Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel
  5. 5 School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  6. 6 Department of Radiology, Wesley Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  7. 7 Gold Coast Respiratory and Sleep Clinic, Pindara Private Hospital, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
  8. 8 Griffith University School of Allied Health Sciences, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
  9. 9 Institute of Pulmonary and Allergic Diseases, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
  10. 10 Occupational Environmental Department, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
  11. 11 Pneumology Service, Central University Hospital of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
  12. 12 Pulmonology, Allergy and Thoracic Surgery Department, Puerta del Mar University Hospital, Cádiz, Spain
  13. 13 Departments of Medicine and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
  14. 14 Pulmonology, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
  15. 15 Respiratory Medicine Department, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
  16. 16 Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  17. 17 Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jeremy Tang Hua, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado 80206, USA; huaj{at}njhealth.org

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2022-108512

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    We thank Dr Hoy and Dr Sim for their comments on our recent study.1 We wish to respond to three key points raised in their letter to the editor.2

    First, we agree that the number of workers enrolled in the Engineered Stone Silicosis Investigators (ESSI) Global Silicosis Registry is indeed a small subset of those with engineered stone (ES) silicosis. We welcome the inclusion of many more Australian workers with silicosis in the registry to better define the demographic, exposure and clinical features that vary widely among patients from different countries, due in part to differences in case ascertainment. We have been particularly eager to involve our colleagues from China, the largest exporter of ES products worldwide, in this work. Efforts to build cooperation with China and other …

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    Footnotes

    • RAC and CSR are joint senior authors.

    • Contributors JTH and CSR drafted the response. All authors reviewed and edited the final response. RAC and CSR are guarantors of the research described in this publication.

    • Funding Work conducted at the National Jewish Health was partially supported by the Reuben M Cherniack fellowship award. Work conducted in Israel was partially supported by the Committee for Research and Prevention in Occupational Safety and Health (56/13). The funders had no role in the conduct or interpretation of these research findings.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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