About 3 percent of African-American women risk getting the disease sometime during their adult lives. It typically affects people between the ages of 20-40. The disease is slightly less common in African-American men, and Caucasian women and men. Oral corticosteroids are used to treat sarcoidosis. New ways of treating it are being developed that focus on controlling the immune system.
Sarcoidosis occurs when the body s immune system overreacts to an unknown agent.
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