Epidemiology of sarcoidosis: recent advances and future prospects.

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Sarcoidosis is by definition a disease of "unknown causes," but recent epidemiologic advances suggest that the long-standing definition of sarcoidosis may soon need to be amended. The recently completed ACCESS (A Case-Control Etiologic Study of Sarcoidosis) study was not able to definitively identify the "cause" of sarcoidosis, but yielded important findings regarding familial and environmental risks that have...

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