TY - JOUR T1 - Response to: Correspondence on ‘Demographic, exposure and clinical characteristics in a multinational registry of engineered stone workers with silicosis’ by Hoy et al JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 849 LP - 850 DO - 10.1136/oemed-2022-108512 VL - 79 IS - 12 AU - Jeremy Tang Hua AU - Lauren Zell-Baran AU - Leonard H T Go AU - Mordechai R Kramer AU - Johanna B Van Bree AU - Daniel Chambers AU - Katrina Newbigin AU - David Deller AU - Michael Matula AU - Elizabeth Fireman AU - Mor Dahbash AU - Cristina Martinez-Gonzalez AU - Antonio León-Jimenez AU - Coralynn Sack AU - Jaume Ferrer Sancho AU - Ana Villar AU - Kirsten S Almberg AU - Robert A Cohen AU - Cecile S Rose Y1 - 2022/12/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/79/12/849.abstract N2 - 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 … ER -