Table 1.
Prevalent sarcoidosis (before 1989) in women according to demographic and geographic characteristics at baseline, Nurses’ Health Study II
| Total | No. of Cases | Prevalence* | Age-adjusted OR |
Mutually Adjusted OR |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | CI | OR | CI | ||||
| Race | |||||||
| White | 111,230 | 102 | 92 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Black | 2,308 | 12 | 519 | 5.24 | 2.87–9.55 | 5.34 | 2.92–9.77 |
| Other | 2,892 | 2 | 69 | — | — | — | — |
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| Non-Hispanic | 114,270 | 116 | 102 | — | — | — | — |
| Hispanic | 2,160 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |
| U.S. geographic region† | |||||||
| West | 17,126 | 13 | 75 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Midwest | 38,478 | 30 | 78 | 1.16 | 0.60–2.22 | 1.18 | 0.61–2.31 |
| South | 20,404 | 19 | 93 | 1.38 | 0.68–2.81 | 1.32 | 0.64–2.73 |
| Northeast | 40,225 | 54 | 134 | 1.90 | 1.04–3.48 | 1.92 | 1.02–3.59 |
Definition of abbreviations: CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio.
Results in bold are statistically significant.
*
Cases per 100,000.
†
At baseline, Nurses’ Health Study II participants resided in 14 states (California, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas).