A COOPERATIVE STUDY OF SARCOIDOSIS IN ASIA AND AFRICA: DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY

An eight-nation cooperative epidemiological study revealed the Asian and African features of sarcoidosis. Almost every country reported from several to less than 30 cases, except for Japan which had already collected over 3,000 cases. Not a single case was found in the mass x-ray surveys conducted b...

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Published in:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1976-01, Vol.278 (1), p.347-354
Main Authors: Hosoda, Y., Kosuda, T., Yamamoto, M., Hongo, O., Mochizumi, H., Mikami, R., Homma, H., Fujita, S., Ohira, I., Izumi, T., Kobara, Y., Yammato, H., Oshima, S., Teramatsu, T., Maekawa, N., Tsuji, S., Soon, Cheong Pak, Sodhy, T. S., Bovornkitti, Somchai, Chakravarty, S. C., Yang, Sze-Piao, Gomaa, Taha
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Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Asia
Humans
Sarcoidosis - epidemiology
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Summary:An eight-nation cooperative epidemiological study revealed the Asian and African features of sarcoidosis. Almost every country reported from several to less than 30 cases, except for Japan which had already collected over 3,000 cases. Not a single case was found in the mass x-ray surveys conducted by several countries on a large scale (Tables 1 and 2). Although the number of the cases included in this study were small, this information is the first of this kind for Asia and Africa.
ISSN:0077-8923
1749-6632
DOI:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1976.tb47045.x