title: Mortality trends for tuberculosis and sarcoidosis in English populations, 1979-2008.
abstract: METHODS
  Analysis of data sets that included both underlying and all contributing causes of death (together termed 'mentions'): the Oxford Record Linkage Study, 1979-2008, and England national data, 1995-2008.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To determine mortality trends for the  granulomatous lung conditions tuberculosis (TB) and sarcoidosis in the Oxford region (1979-2008) and England (1995-2008).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mortality for mentions of TB in the Oxford region declined from 39.7 deaths per million population in 1979 to 9.0 in 2008. The corresponding rates  for underlying cause were 17.1, falling to 4.5. In England, mortality rates from TB fell from 18.5/million in 1995 to 12.2 in 2008 (mentions), and from 9.3 in 1995 to 6.5 in 2008 (underlying cause). Numbers of deaths from sarcoidosis in Oxford were very small, and showed no significant trend.  For the much larger England population, mortality rates based on mentions were 3.6/million in 1995 and 4.2 in 2008; the corresponding rates for sarcoidosis as underlying cause were 2.1 and 2.3.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  TB mortality is still declining in England, despite a recent resurgence in the prevalence  of the disease. Mortality from sarcoidosis has been largely stable. The conventional statistic of underlying cause of death missed almost half of all certified TB and sarcoidosis deaths.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Goldacre
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death / Q000639:trends; D003644:Death Certificates; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D012042:Registries; D017565:Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary / Q000401:mortality*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013997:Time Factors; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000401:mortality*; D055815:Young Adult