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A COOPERATIVE STUDY OF SARCOIDOSIS IN ASIA AND AFRICA: DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY
Author(s) -
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 SzePiao,
Gomaa Taha
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1976.tb47045.x
Subject(s) - epidemiology , sarcoidosis , geography , central asia , medicine , socioeconomics , political science , environmental health , demography , economic growth , pathology , sociology , economics , physical geography
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.