Article
Epidemiology of sarcoidosis: recent advances and future prospects.
Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine - 1 Feb 2007
Rybicki Benjamin A, Iannuzzi Michael C
Abstract excerpt
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...
Topics
- Black or African American
- Environmental Exposure
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Granuloma, Respiratory Tract
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DQ beta-Chains
- Humans
- Incidence
- Phenotype
- Risk Factors