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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 99, No. 4: 250-257
Copyright © 1974 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SARCOIDOSIS IN THE U. S. NAVY1

PHILIP E. SARTWELL and LYDIA B. EDWARDS

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Among 1, 216, 425 recruits entering the Navy between 1958 and 1969, 134 developed sarcoidosis through 1971. Incidence was tenfold higher in Negroes than in whites. Marked regional variations were found among men whose lives had been spent in one state; those from the southeastern states had higher rates, those from the western regions had lower. Sensitivity at entry to service to three skin-test antigens (PPD-S, PPD-B or -G, and histoplasmin) was unrelated to subsequent development of sarcoidosis while in the Navy. There appeared to be some reduction of sensitivity to tuberculin and histoplasmin after development of sarcoidosis.

military personnel; sarcoidosis, geographic and racial distribution; sarcoidosis and skin sensitivity; skin tests, histoplasmin, tuberculin

1From the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health; and the Research Section, Tuberculosis Branch, Center for Disease Control


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