You are Visitor Number to this page last updated November 20, 1998. He was inspired to look-up some information after taking care of an unusual patient with CNS Sarcoid. She revised and added to the document. Sarcoidosis a systemic disease of young adults with an unknown etiology, inconsistent manifestations, and an unpredictable course.
Sarcoidosis affects both sexes, all races, and all ages throughout the world.
In the United States and Europe, the prevalence is between 10 and 40 per 100,000. This disease tends to appear in young adults between the ages of twenty and forty. US blacks are affected by this disease ten to seventeen times as often as whites are. Women seem to be affected slightly more often than men. Nonsmokers are affected more than smokers.