• Rev Med Interne · Jul 2004

    Review

    [Epidemiology of sarcoidosis and its genetic and environmental risk factors].

    • C Chapelon-Abric.
    • Service de médecine interne II, CHU de la Pitié-Salpétrière, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris cedex 13, France. catherine.chapelon@psl.ap-hop-paris.fr
    • Rev Med Interne. 2004 Jul 1; 25 (7): 494-500.

    PurposeReview of the literature on epidemiologic data of sarcoidosis and risk factors.Current Knowledge And Key PointsEpidemiological data show that sarcoidosis is a world-wide disease. Frequency is influenced by multiple predisposition factors. The most important are racial factor, sex, age, familial aggregation, genetic factor and/or infective agent. One of these is insufficiency.Future Prospects And ProjectsPatent sarcoidosis is revealed when concomitant environmental factors (infective agent, climate, country) and predisposition ones (race, sex familial aggregation) appear together and inducing, in each patient, a particular sarcoidosis.

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