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Occupational risk factors for sarcoidosis in African-American siblings.
Chest - 1 May 2003
Kucera Gena P, Rybicki Benjamin A, Kirkey Kandace L, Coon Steven W, Major Marcie L, Maliarik Mary J, Iannuzzi Michael C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether certain occupations and occupationally related exposures were associated with a history of sarcoidosis in African-American siblings. METHODS: We collected occupational data from 921 African Americans in 273 sibships that had been identified through a sarcoidosis case. Among the 648 siblings of sarcoidosis index cases enrolled, 30 (4.6%) also had a history of sarcoidosis. A...
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