title: [Epidemiology of sarcoidosis].
abstract: The Sarcoidosis is a world-wide phenomenon. The history of its epidemiological investigation is very instructive. The expectancy of noted sarcoidosis-researches that epidemiologic studies might also help to find out the cause of sarcoidosis failed. The available epidemiologic data are still confuse--the probable reasons for that has been explained. Socio-economic parameters--hitherto neglected--find increasingly consideration. The incidence is the only parameter which is suitable for reflecting the epidemiologic situation exactly. The principal problem of a reliable epidemiological research in sarcoidosis is world-wide the mode of ascertainment of the diseased persons. There is no evidence for an increase of the disease in the last 30 years.
authors.affiliation: III. Med. Klinik Pulmologie/Geriatrie, Carl-Thiem-Klinikum Cottbus, Kolkwitz.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Scharkoff
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D017565:Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology
vernacular_title: Epidemiologie der Sarkoidose.