American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 153, No. 2 : 188-193
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Familial Risk Ratio of Sarcoidosis in African-American Sibs and Parents
1 Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
2 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
While sarcoidosis is thought to aggregate in families, little is known about the risk to relatives of sarcoidosis patients. To estimate the familial risk ratio (
) of sarcoidosis in sibs and parents of cases, the authors studied 179 African-American families ascertained through an index sarcoidosis case diagnosed at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Among those relatives enrolled between 1997 and 1999, 12 of 327 (3.7%) sibs and 11 of 161 (6.8%) parents reported a history of sarcoidosis. The in this sample of relatives, estimated by computing an age, sex, and race standardized incidence ratio, was 2.24 (95% confidence interval: 1.16, 3.92) for sibs and 2.82 (95% confidence interval: 1.41, 5.05) for parents. For sibs and parents combined, was 2.49 (95% confidence interval: 1.58, 3.73). Results stratified by proband characteristics indicated that was greater for relatives of younger ( = 2.93, 95% confidence interval: 1.52, 5.12) and male ( = 3.98, 95% confidence interval: 1.99, 7.12) probands. A higher was also found for male family members and sibs born later in the birth order. A Monte Carlo method was also used to estimate , with similar results obtained. Overall, these results indicate that, in African Americans, sibs and parents of sarcoidosis cases have about a 2.5-fold increased risk for sarcoidosis and that heterogeneity in disease risk may exist among family members.
birth order; incidence; lung diseases; odds ratio; parents; Poisson distribution; sarcoidosis
Abbreviations: HFHS, Henry Ford Health System
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