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Sarcoidosis is an intriguing, puzzling, multi-system granulomatous condition, with multiple confounding manifestations. In this section, the variations in incidence, racial and ethnic factors, and clinical presentation variations will be described in detail. Sarcoidosis most often presents in African American persons, particularly in cases described in North America, and is usually a disease of early middle age. In some parts of the world, such as Japan, the vast majority of deaths from sarcoidosis appear to be heart related, and in all likelihood, cardiac involvement is under diagnosed, owing to heterogeneous symptoms (and sometimes no symptoms at all), and the bias that results from the disease’s first manifestation often being sudden cardiac death.
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Freeman, A.M. (2015). High Yield Epidemiology. In: Freeman, A., Weinberger, H. (eds) Cardiac Sarcoidosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14624-9_1
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