MORTALITY FROM SARCOIDOSIS IN UNITED STATES

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Abstract
Sarcoidosis is a relatively infrequent cause of death in the United States. The recorded deaths have numbered less than 200 each year since 1949, when annual mortality statistics for this disease entity first became available. The recorded death rate for sarcoidosis has doubled in the ten-year period 1949 through 1958. The increase has been greater for the nonwhite population than for whites. How much of the increase in mortality is real is not known. The mortality pattern by age is quite different when color and sex are also considered. There is no difference in rate by sex for the whites, but for the nonwhites the death rate for females exceeds that for males by more than 20%. There appears to be a certain resemblance in the pattern by age, color, and sex between the present death rates for sarcoidosis and the rates for respiratory tuberculosis prior to extensive use of chemotherapy in tuberculosis. Further study of these patterns may yield useful clues to the nature of sarcoidosis. Analysis of the geographic distribution of sarcoidosis mortality was not particularly productive because of the small number of sarcoid deaths reported by the states in which the decedents resided.

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