Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of sarcoidosis patients

Subjects (n)	52
Male/female	24/28
Age (year)	48 ± 15 (21–84)
Smoker/non-smoker (n)	14/38
Acute (< 2 years)/chronic (> 2 years) disease (n)	10/42
Chest X-ray stages (n)
0	27
I	13
II	3
III, IV	9
Activities in chronic disease patients (n)
Stable	31
Unstable	6
Progressive	5
Lesions other than lung (n)
Uveitis	22
Skin	9
Stomach	2
Liver and spleen	1
BALF (mean ± s.e.m.) (range)
Cellular concentration ( × 105 cells/ml)	1·2 ± 0·1 (0·4–3·7)
% of lymphocytes (%)	30·8 ± 2·8 (1·5–77·4)