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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2017 Sep;23(5):458–467. doi: 10.1097/MCP.0000000000000409

Table 1.

The Frequency of Sarcoidosis as an underlying cause for Uveitis in International Clinics

Location Size of series conclusions
Germany[7] 474 11.4 %, sarcoidosis was most commonly associated systemic disease
Saudi Arabia[8] 888 0.5 % of uveitis had sarcoidosis as underlying disease
Taiwan[9] 405 Sarcoidosis account for 2.7 % of uveitis
Korea [10] 602 2.7 %
Japan [11] 695 8.1 %, sarcoidosis was most common systemic cause
India [12] 980 2 %
New Zealand[13] 1148 5% of patients had sarcoidosis and panuveitis (17.5%) was most common type of uveitis.
Turkey [14] 4863 2.8 % of uveitis caused by sarcoidosis with female predominance (M:F=1:4)
Australia[15] 1165 Sarcoidosis was associated in 5.8% of patients younger than 60 year-old and 8.9 % of patients older than 60 year-old