TY - JOUR T1 - Lifetime risk of silicosis death for quartz exposed workers among German population JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 374 LP - 375 VL - 61 IS - 4 AU - Y Sun AU - F Bochmann Y1 - 2004/04/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/61/4/374.2.abstract N2 - In a recent article of Occupational and Environmental Medicine,1 Mannetje et al presented quantitative evidence of an exposure-response relation between occupational exposure to crystalline silica and silicosis mortality in a carefully designed pooled analysis. This paper impressively showed that simple silicosis, one of the oldest occupational diseases, is still a relevant occupational health problem nowadays which may have a negative effect on the life expectancy of silica exposed workers. The quantitative evidence (exposure-response relation) presented in this paper provided a sophisticated basis for quantitative assessment of the absolute risks of silicosis deaths for workers … ER -