• Funmilola Ogundipe, Alem Mehari, and Richard Gillum.
• Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC. Electronic address: Ogundipef@gmail.com.
• Am. J. Med. 2019 Sep 1; 132 (9): 1062-1068.e3.

PurposeSex, race/ethnicity, and geographic disparities in sarcoidosis-associated mortality were assessed for the most recent period.MethodsUS data for multiple causes of death for 1999-2016 were used to determine numbers of deaths and age-adjusted rates for sarcoidosis as an underlying or a contributing cause of death using International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision code D86 for Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanic whites.ResultsFor persons of all ages in the United States in 1999-2016, there were a total of 28,923 sarcoidosis-associated deaths. In 2008-2016, 9112 deaths had sarcoidosis as the underlying cause (56%) compared with 16,129 with sarcoidosis listed as any cause. Age-adjusted annual death rates per 100,000 were 5.7 (95% confidence interval [CI], 5.6-5.8) for females and 4.1 (95% CI, 4.0-4.2) for males. Age-adjusted annual death rates were 1.5 (95% CI, 1.4-1.6) for Hispanics and 5.4 (95% CI, 5.3-5.4) for non-Hispanics. Rates in non-Hispanic blacks were 8 times those in non-Hispanic whites. Among females, the highest rate was in non-Hispanic blacks in the East-Central division. Between 1999-2007 and 2008-2016, rates increased most in non-Hispanic white males (52.5%) and least in non-Hispanic black females (5.8%).ConclusionsSarcoidosis-related multiple cause of death mortality rates were highest in females and in non-Hispanic blacks, and they varied geographically.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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