The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE)
Working Group started in 2000 as a collaboration of epidemiologists, public and other health …

Pneumoconiosis is deemed one of China's most common and serious occupational
diseases. Its high prevalence and treatment cost create enormous pressure on socio …

Silicosis, a severe and irreversible form of pulmonary fibrosis (PF) caused by long-term
exposure to dust particles in production environments, is the biggest occupational health …

Three environmental parameters, ie dust concentrations, dust dispersion, and free silica
content, were introduced into the traditional indices of the neural network model in order to …

We read with interest the letter by Bolm-Audorff et al.(2022) with comments on our recently
published systematic review and meta-analysis on the effect of occupational exposure to …

Systematic review (SR) is a rigorous methodology applied to synthesize and evaluate a
body of scientific evidence to answer a research or policy question. Effective use of …

This umbrella review summarizes the available meta-analyses elucidating the effects of
maternal pesticide exposure on adverse health outcomes in children particularly the risk of …

Background and objective This study aimed to identify miRNA as potential diagnostic
biomarkers for silica‐related pulmonary fibrosis (SPF). Methods We first performed a …

Abstract In 2016, Environment International became the first environmental health journal to
adopt specialist policies for handling systematic review (SR) submissions. This included the …

Objectives In a genome-wide association study, we discovered chromosome 12q15 (defined
as rs73329476) as a silica-related pneumoconiosis susceptibility region. However, the …